<p>Have any of you ever had to write a financial aid suspension appeal letter to your university? If so, were you approved? What are some of the reasons your fin aid was suspended and what did you write in order to get them to grant you your financial aid for the next semester?</p>
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<p>I failed all of my classes this past semester. It was due to the fact that I was on legal probation until Dec of this year and I had to meet with my probation officer monthly and when I would come home to make those meetings I often wouldnt have a ride back to school due to my mothers work schedule which caused me to miss important days. I also believe it was because my mother is a single mom and when I left her home she often has a problem paying the bills on time which caused me to stress and worry about her.Then one of my closest friends was hospitalized in risk of loosing her unborn child. It just seemed the bad news kept coming this semester which made it hard for me to give my all academically. But by the grace of god, im off of probation now, my mother is still behind in some bills but she has eliminated a few, and my friend gets out of the hospital jan. 16. before i was notified of the suspension of my fin aid, i had already emailed one of my teachers about a book required for the course in order to be prepared for the spring semester. I had already said i was going to give 1000% to school next semester. would i get approved for fin. aid for these reasons this is my first year in college, so this is my first fin. aid appeal. thanks in advance</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about financial aid suspension appeals. I would just say this as an attitude you might possibly receive from someone in the financial aid office questioning whether or not to spend more money on you.</p>
<p>It is difficult to take someone seriously when they failed every class (every class?). I would want to see actions and a track record rather than words. Everyone has obstacles during the school semester. I just don’t see your excuses being reason to fail all your classes. Maybe to get B’s instead of A’s. I question your motivation to do school work. Some people need more time to mature and get organized before going to school full time.</p>
<p>If I were to just ‘play at’ being a financial aid officer I would think this…</p>
<p>You committed a crime (was it a misdemeanor or…?). You learned that you had probation once a month and in light of your crime you did not take your school schedule into consideration. </p>
<p>Your mother had financial difficulty when you left for school. Were you working and helping her out financially prior to leaving for school? </p>
<p>When your friend became ill…was this a very close friend of yours? Do you have any documentation from her mother (or another family member or even the hospital chaplain) which would attest to your having visited her and trying to be helpful to her in her time of need? </p>
<p>Did you have an attendance issue? </p>
<p>See what I mean, MsTehrie? I am not trying to hate on you at all. I swear to you I am not. I was just ‘playing at’ being a financial aid officer and I came up with some real world things that might be asked of you.</p>
<p>Now, I am done ‘playing at’ being a financial aid officer, alright? </p>
<p>Once again. I am not trying to hate on you at all. What I think is the bottom line in all of what you originally posted is that your probation and your justifiably worrying about your mother and your friend lead you down the wrong kind of academic path. I also have vibes that you might not have attended your classes all too very frequently. I really think that you should have formally withdrawn early on, but that is just me. </p>
<p>If your appeal does not work, then what will happen? I would not know. Would you owe money back to the school because of the rule of completion rates? You need to find this out. Then, if I were you, I would have the probation officer try to help you towards finding work or guide you towards social service agencies which could help you find work. Then, if you owe money to the school, you work and pay it back right away. If you do not owe money to the school, then take some of the money you earn and go to community college and do all you can to take the course equivalents to every class you failed.</p>