<p>I lost my financial aid at my school; can I get financial aid if I transfer somewhere else?</p>
<p>How did you lose it?</p>
<p>Because of my grades but I am in good standing; I didn’t do too good spring semester '10 and I lost my financial aid. I appealed and got it back but I fell short with a D in English, so they cancelled my financial aid.</p>
<p>Then I’m not sure. Normally, if you don’t meet SAP (Satisfactory Academic Progress, which you have to meet in order to keep receiving federal financial aid) you can’t get your aid back without an appeal even if you transfer to another college.</p>
<p>Are you saying that you did not meet the GPA requirement of SAP because of your D in English?</p>
<p>Apparently in this case, it is 2 strikes, you’re out</p>
<p>Yes. I was told that my financial aid GPA was a 1.6 and I needed at least a 1.8.</p>
<p>As far as your original question, SAP is a federal policy. If you’re looking for federal grants and federal student loans from another school, you won’t be able to get those if you couldn’t get them at your original school. I think you should really consider trying another appeal.</p>
<p>Or you can pay to retake a few classes and raise your gpa to the minimum standard.</p>
<p>SAP is a federal policy but I believe each school sets its own criteria for SAP as well as any appeals process.</p>
<p>Remember, your financial aid is presumably paying for courses to fulfill your degree requirements, not just to take courses or just to attend college. A 1.6 GPA would not be sufficient at most schools to fulfill ANY sort of graduation requirement. In fact, at most places you would be on academic probation. You got those two D’s but you also must have done poorly in your other course as well. Financial aid is not going to continue to pay for you to attend college and not pass courses or get grades sufficient to be able to graduate.</p>
<p>I think you need to figure out a way to bring your grades UP to at LEAST above a 2.0 GPA…if not higher. </p>
<p>I would suggest taking courses at a community college (costs are modest there) and doing VERY WELL…then appealing for readmission to your current school. Talk to them about what you need to do to reverse your lack of SAP.</p>
<p>@thumper1: i raised my 1.52 cumulative gpa to a 2.10; they said my financial aid gpa was a 1.6. English class was the only class I did poorly in.</p>
<p>Has anyone else ever heard of a “financial aid gpa”? I haven’t and am puzzled as to how and why the student would have 2 separate gpas at one school. MLIF, do you know why this is? If not, you really should sit down with someone in the FA office and get an explanation…obviously English was not the only class you’ve done poorly in. Honestly, if I were reading an appeal from you, I would probably question why you think you deserve FA if you aren’t able to maintain a reasonable (2.5 or higher) gpa and wonder what was going on that resulted in such low marks. As you know, there’s very little value in going to college and not earning decent grades…I sincerely hope you aren’t incurring debt at this point!</p>
<p>I have never heard of a financial aid GPA. But SAP does take other things into account such as % of attempted classes successfully completed, withdrawals etc. Perhaps that is part of the issue here? Whatever the reason is, the school gets to set the SAP and make the decision about FA. </p>
<p>How this would be handled at another school will depend on the school. Every school must have a SAP policy. They set it themselves but they are all somewhat similar. But some things may vary - such as what % of classes must be successfully completed or what the minimum GPA is.</p>
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At my daughter’s school there are 3 GPAs on the transcript. Institutional, Cumulative Graduation retention, and Cumulative. I am not sure exactly what the differences are. I think institutional is classes taken at the school (so excluding transfer credits). Cumulative graduation/retention is all classes taken anywhere but excluding and replaced grades from retaken classes (I think they can retake up to 4 classes that have a D or F and replace the grade), and cumulative is all classes taken anywhere including all grades from classes taken more than once. I think the third would be the one used for SAP.</p>
<p>^Oh that’s right! I never considered the possibility that there’s more than one school involved! Mylife, have you taken classes at other schools as well?</p>
<p>If the OP got three C’s and 1 D, the GPA (assuming all courses were the same number of credits) would be 1.75. </p>
<p>What we don’t know is if the OP dropped any courses along the way. That also affects SAP.</p>