<p>This is pretty long, so if you won't read it all then please just say so and I'll try to shorten it as much as I can or post half in a different thread. Thanks :)</p>
<p>I had a super bad year, not just academically. I've been placed on academic suspension. I had a chat with the dean of students at my school and he said it would just be for the summer, so if I submit the reinstatement form now, during the gap between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of the summer semester, I'll have almost a 100% of it being put through and I'll be perfectly fine to attend in the fall, BUT from what I can understand from the school website on financial aid, once you're placed on probation you can still receive aid, but once you're on suspension you cannot until you bring up your GPA.</p>
<p>There are no scholarships or grants involved right now, just federal loans, but I don't know if that makes a difference. The federal loans cover my tuition almost perfectly and if I don't have them then I can't attend school to bring up my GPA :/ </p>
<p>I have a doctor's form that I'm submitting with my reinstatement form with an ADD diagnoses and proof of prescription with a friendly note from my doctor that my dean of students says makes my case for reinstatement ironclad and he'll see me in the fall, but I don't think a simple ADD diagnoses is enough to argue "mitigating circumstances" with the financial aid appeal committee which requires illnesses like cancer or people dying.</p>
<p>(Should I create a new thread for this part? >) So if I can't get my loans this fall, then I may still have the option of going to a community college. The one I want to go to will definitely take me despite the suspension and is less than half the cost of my current school, so I can afford it w/o FA. I thought about applying for transient permission to the cc, which my dean of students said would be ok, but then when I went to print out the form after my meeting with him, the webpage said that permission will be denied if a suspension is in place, so could I possibly transfer out instead and then reapply to my current university? By then my GPA would be up enough to continue receiving financial aid and I would be able to continue going to my current uni, and get the suspension off my transcripts so I can go to another college (I'll be after a second degree that my current school doesn't offer and have read that you just can't go to another uni with a suspension mucking up your transcripts)</p>
<p>If there's any advice or suggestions you can offer on what to do about financial aid or the probability I'll be granted my loans, or on the possible options I've come up with I'd really appreciate it. Any input...polite input (I get it, I screwed up and I'm trying to fix it- situation's stressful enough without rude comments, thanks) will be greatly appreciated!</p>
Is there more information needed? Suggested changes to the post? Or just a tricky subject?</p>
I never did receive a notice of any kind specifically about financial aid probation. In fact, I have a fin aid email that says I’m cleared for satisfactory academic progress, dated 2 days before an email I sent to a faculty member discussing my probation at the end of this past fall semester. Upon checking my banner web (don’t know if other schools use this, but mine does - just holds student info) I’m marked as on SAP financial aid probation as of Spring 2013 and it seems to be updated to May 9th (which is right now), so maybe I’ll be ok. I had just assumed they were the same thing though, so thanks! I wouldn’t have even checked if you hadn’t said anything. I’ll have to stomach a meeting with the fin aid person (not friendly on a good day) and check to see if I’ll be ok and be really sure, but I feel a bit less doomed now, so again, thanks :)</p>