Financial Aid Suspension Appeal Letter

Paying for College
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<p>So I was recently suspended by financial aid because of a low GPA. My GPA is a 1.76 after 2 semesters and I need help revising my appeal letter. Any type of feedback will help. Thanks!</p>

<p>Dear Financial Aid Appeals Committee:</p>

<p>My name is XX and I am writing to ask you to reconsider your office’s decision to suspend my financial aid for the upcoming 2014-15 school year. My financial aid was suspended due to my 1.76 GPA and I am aware that it was the cause of my suspension.</p>

<p>The fall and spring semesters were a very stressful time especially during my fall semester of my freshman year. First of all, my Mother is suffering with Multiple Sclerosis and Crohn’s Disease. She has limited help as my Father works between 10-12 hours for 5-6 days a week on 2nd shift doing hard labor at Glen Raven Technical Fabrics in Burlington, NC. I had to assist her to make sure she got to her appointments. She also needed assistance during a gynecological surgery in October of 2013 for pre and post-op. She has also needed me this spring due to her mobility issues and cognitive impairments. </p>

<p>Although I felt that it was necessary to take care of my Mother since that’s what I did all throughout high school, I understand that school should be a top priority. I should have done a better job communicating with my professors so that I wouldn’t have fallen behind in classes. Since I didn’t correctly explain to my professors what was going on, my GPA suffered tremendously. </p>

<p>After doing some thinking and consulting with my former COAD Professor Dr. Mellish, I have realized that I need to take some steps to become more successful while attending East Carolina. I will do the following:
1. Keep my home visits and the multitude of phone calls to a minimum
2. Inform my professors when a life altering event occurs
3. Take advantage of my professor’s office hours
4. Keep my school work as a top priority
5. Utilize the Pirate Tutoring Center when I need help with a certain subject
6. Make appointments with an on-campus counselor to keep me focused
I would be honored to continue my studies at East Carolina University. I understand the seriousness of the situation that I have put myself into and federal aid is a privilege, not a right. I have taken full responsibility of my actions and will not allow myself to have another mishap in the future. Thankfully, I have come up with a plan that will make sure that I stay on the right track and become a successful student.
Thank you for your valuable time and consideration.</p>

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<p>This is the best appeal letter I’ve ever seen here on CC. It’s concise and to the point, and it sets forth clearly the causes of your problems and your plans for turning things around. However, I do hope that you are being realistic about what you’ll be able to do and that your family will have other sources of assistance for your mother in your absence. If there’s a good chance that you’ll be needed at home more than you are currently anticipating or that you will suffer from guilt while cutting back on your assistance to your mother, you may wish to consider taking fewer classes. A full course load is preferable, of course, but we can only do so much in life, and so long as you are making progress toward your degree, you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>MommaJ can you message me please, I was wondering if you could give your opinion on my appeal letter, I would greatly greatly appreciate it. Thanks </p>

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<p>Andy…read this letter. The main theme in it is what the student plans to do. Your letter (you already posted it on another thread) spent a lot of words giving the reasons why you had difficulty. You spent precious little time relatively speaking talking about what YOU plan to do to turn this around.</p>

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<p>Alright I think I understand now, I’m going to cut down on the story of what cause me to fail, and talk more about what I will do this year, all my plans to move forward and do good. Sound right? Like talk more about present and future and less of the past ?</p>