Hello all! First off, sorry if this is the wrong form. I’m new!
I was dismissed from a community college for crap grades Fall 2015. Since then, I’ve attended another community college and currently have a 4.0 GPA (started winter 2016). My financial aid is listed for the college I was dismissed from so I’m not getting any aid. So since I have a 4.0 is there any way I can just switch my college to the one I’m currently attending to get aid for the 2017-2018 school year? I will be able to go back for reinstatement at the first college this Spring, but I will not be allowed to take more than 7 units (which will not get me up to a 2.0 by the end of Spring).
You need to discuss this with your current community college. Each college has its own SAP (satisfactory academic progress) guidelines and appeals process. It is possible that you will be able to use your current good grades to appeal the loss of aid at your current school.
What was the GPA at CC number one and how many credits did you take?
@thumper1 29 units attempted. 1.10 gpa.
there is no right way to do something that you know is wrong.
You were not suppose to simply go to college #2 after getting dismissed from college #1. Minimally you should have been applying as a transfer, to college # reporting grades, via official transcripts from college # 1.
Should you decide to stay at college # 2, you will need to coordinate all of your credits. while you will not transfer your gpa from college # 1, you need to reconcile your records.
IF you want to stay at college #2, they will determine whether or not you have satisfactory academic progress based on all credits that you have attempted/accumulated.
You could find yourself dismissed from both schools due to misrepresentation and having to repay any aid that you have received.
Are you just taking classes at your community college? Or did you apply for admission to the community college?
Most community colleges have open enrollment around here, and anyone can take classes as a non-matriculates student. Is that what you are doing?
If so, then you need to now talk to your school about officially enrolling as a degree seeking student…and you will be a transfer. Then do as Sybbie and I have suggested…talk to,the school about your SAP…and see what you need to do.
@sybbie719 the second college is also a community college. I called the second college before starting classes and they told me they do not look at your past community college transcript unless you send it in for class placement. I know that I will need to do what you said once I transfer to a university, but for attending community colleges I’m fine.
@thumper1 I did not even realize admissions for community colleges are different depending on the state. I am enrolled as a degree/transfer student. I will set up an appointment, thank you
You are not “fine”. You can only be a matriculated student and receive financial aid at one college at a time. You are not a new incoming freshman with no credits; you are a transfer student, even at community college.
@sybbie719 I know you can only receive financial aid at one school at a time which is why I was asking whether or not I can switch schools on my fafsa. My second college I am registered as a transfer student, sorry for not clarifying any of this.
How are you registered as a transfer student if you did not submit your transcripts from your first school (that is the definition of a transfer student a student who has previously been enrolled in college). Protect yourself, turn in your transcript and reconcile your credits. You do not even remotely want to be though of a person who was trying to get over because you can be dismissed from your current college for academic dishonesty.
Don’t go by “what the lady on the phone told you”. Minimally go to your schools’s website under transfer admissions and you will see that they tell you to submit official transcripts.
Example: I live in NYC below is the CUNY CC transfer admissions
SUNY transfer admissions
In addition, there is also a limit to the amount of time that you can receive federal/state aid.
@sybbie719 they do not have a section for grades on the application, or anywhere for that matter. They do have a section where you list any colleges you’ve attended, but do not ask for grades. As I said in a previous reply, they do not look at grades from other schools in order to attend classes. I made sure to ask before I applied.
Discuss what to do with your current community college. They will be able to tell you what to do now.
Did you list your previous college?
Is this an on-line for profit school or a CC that is part of a public university system? What is the school in question? Please don’t get yourself in a situation that will come back to bite you later.
Go to the school’s website; admissions, transfer students. Copy and paste what it says about applying for admissions as a transfer student.
Most applications have the question “have you attended any other colleges?” Or something like that. If yes, you are required to provide a transcript fro. ALL previously attended colleges.
This has nothing to do with grades being counted. But the schools require this transcript for students enrolling as degree seeking students in most cases.
Contact your college…and just get the info you need from them. There is someone ther who can help you with this.
Please be proactive and take care of this yourself. A simple audit by the financial aid department will show that you previously received aid from another school. If you wait for them to call you on it, you will have little recourse as they will say that you misrepresented yourself in the admissions process. They can help you straighten it out. If they have all of your information and you explain your situation, they will most likely allow you to appeal and give you the aid anyway. But if you lie, there will be consequences.
This student said he is currently NOT receiving need based aid.
But he wants to get aid at his new school. he wants to know can he simply apply and put down his current school without disclosing his previous record to admissions or financial aid. Remember he applied for aid at his previous school for this year, but then got academically dismissed from that school, hence no aid.
This is a train wreck waiting to happen because it sounds like he does not want to disclose to the new school his academic record from his previous school because it may affect his aid.
@sybbie719 I spoke with a counselor today and he said the only reason I would need to send my transcript is so I could transfer credits of classes passed. They do not require it at all.
I think I was not very clear in this post. I know you need to show all school records for financial aid. I was asking whether or not they would allow me aid because I have a 4.0. I never said I was going to hide the gpa from my first school.
Thank you for the insight anyway.