<p>So this past spring was my first semester in college. Everything was going pretty well until towards the end of the semester my living situation changed and I was having to commute 40 minutes to get to school every day. I passed all of my four classes except for one, finishing with a 1.6 GPA and consequently being put on financial aid suspension. I've talked to financial aid advisers and they've told me to reinstate my financial aid I must attend school for a year (I think taking a minimum of 6-7 hours?) and meet SAP requirements. I sure as hell can't pay for a year of school at university, but at this point I'm desperate to get back. My mom said something about re-applying at the school and also re-applying for financial aid, but can it really work like that? Has anybody been in this situation, and if so what did you do to get back to your university?</p>
<p>You need to go meet with the financial aid office and get the details. </p>
<p>Ask if you can take the classes at a cheap local community college instead of at that university. Ask exactly how many credits you need to earn, and what your GPA has to be in order to meet the SAP requirements. Find out if your university has an appeal process. Some do.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Op taking classes at another school(cheap community college) is not going to help his SAP at his current school. Keep in mind that even if he attempts to transfer the credits, you transfer the credit only; s/he would not be able to transfer the GPA received at the cheap community college.</p>
<p>The best thing that OP could do is pay for a course or 2 at current school get good grades and raise GPA</p>
<p>Im surprised that you weren’t given a warning term to get your act together.
( but then Im surprised that a commute of less than an hour is given as a reason for doing badly in your classes).</p>
<p>Find out if you can retake the class you failed online or at a community college.</p>
<p>happymomof1 - I am currently taking classes at a cheap community college. My university does have an appeal process and on the website it states: “Once you are notified of not being eligible for financial aid (financial aid suspension), you have (10) working days to submit an appeal.” I only check my school email every so often and by the time I had seen the email telling me I’d been put on suspension it was several days too late. </p>
<p>sybbie719 - Correct. I can transfer the credits but in order to have my aid reinstated I was told I have to attend my university for a year meeting the SAP requirements and then I would then be evaluated at the end of the spring semester of that school year. With the bills I have to pay I honestly don’t know how I’d afford to even take one class there, also considering the 40 minute commute. </p>
<p>emeraldkity4 - exactly, a warning would have been nice… especially as a first year Freshman… And I have to pay for a car, insurance, and living expenses. Adding a 40 minute commute to that during the spring semester totally threw everything off.</p>
<p>“With the bills I have to pay I honestly don’t know how I’d afford to even take one class there, also considering the 40 minute commute.”</p>
<p>Then perhaps your better plan would be to complete a full associate’s degree at your community college, and transfer to a more affordable 4-year institution.</p>