<p>I finished out my freshman year of college at Wright State University and I failed one of my CEG classes and now I have a 1.692 GPA, because of this my college is taking my federal aid away from me :(. I feel like I am going to have to drop out of college :(. How am I supposted to pay for college? </p>
<p>It sounds like you did not meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). Until you do meet SAP, you will not receive federally funded aid. You need to contact your school and find out what you need to do to satisfy this requirement at your school. </p>
<p>I hate to say it…but the college isn’t doing this. You did it to yourself by getting a low GPA and failing that course. </p>
<p>As harsh as it may sound, the money provided to you by federally funded aid is supposed to be for you to PASS courses. </p>
<p>In addition to finding out how to meet your school SAP requirement, you need to also figure out what went wrong, and why you failed this course…so you won’t have a repeat.</p>
<p>I understand that it was my doing in failing the class and not doing well over all, I am re taking the class in the fall, my problem is trying to now get the money together to re take the class in the fall :(. In order to meet our school’s SAP is to get a 2.0 GPA I can appeal and try to get on probation with federal aid but I don’t know if my case will hold up.</p>
<p>Talk to your school. There is an appeals process. See what that entails. Can you retake (and pay out of pocket) that ONE course during the summer to meet the SAP requirement?</p>
<p>Have you met with an academic advisor? You need to do that as soon as possible. In order for your appeal to have a chance, you have to be able to show that you have a plan to turn things around. WSU’s academic advisors know the financial aid SAP regulations, and they can work with you. Your GPA is very low, and you definitely need to figure out how to turn things around.</p>
<p>See if you can take a couple of classes at Sinclair. The GCs at WSU have seen this before.</p>
<p>get a job over the summer and pay for the class at a CC. Keep in mind that fed aid is aid from tax-payers who do NOT want to pay for students who are wasting the money. You need to earn/spend som of YOUR OWN money to show that you deserve more of the tax-payers money. </p>
<p>Once you are a tax-payer, you will appreciate that your hard-earned money isnt being wasted on students who dont put forth the effort to pass a class.</p>
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<p>what is your major? maybe it is too hard for you. that class is a computer science class, and if one failing class caused your cum GPA to fall that low, then your other grades werent very high either. If you took 12 credits each semester for a total of 24 credits, and if you failed a 4 credit class, but got B’s (no As) in all of your other classes, you would have a 2.5.</p>
<p>If you cant get at least Bs in your classes (with maybe an occasional C), you are likely in the wrong major. </p>
<p>My major is Computer Engineering and after the fall semester i had a GPA of a 2.285 (which isn’t great), I have taken a total of 30 credit hours (26 have counted because i failed a class). I mainly have been doing horrible in the Gen Ed classes because they don’t appeal to my interests. In the fall i took 12 credit hours this Spring I took 16 and this fall I am returning to take another 16 </p>
<p>You need to see an academic advisor, and also find out how to satisfy your school’s SAP requirement. Your GPA must have fallen below what they allow for continued aid.</p>
<p>ETA…you took 12 credits last fall and didn’t exactly do well. Then you increased to 16? Why. And you did worse. Now you are going to try 16 again? Why?</p>
<p>I would suggest you take an amount of credits whereby you can do well!M</p>
<p>As a general note…you need to learn to do well in classes that don’t appeal to your interests.</p>
<p>The direct reason is, of course, that you have to pass general education requirements to graduate.</p>
<p>But a more indirect reason is that many of us are required to do things in our careers that we don’t like. Everyone has an aspect of their job they would rather not do, but have to do anyway - and do well - in order to remain employed. College is an exercise in that. Learn to do well at things that don’t necessarily appeal to you.</p>
<p>Personally, I thought of it like a grand adventure. You have four years to take classes in a wide variety of different subjects and learn very broadly. This is an opportunity that not everyone gets - and one that you will never get again, at least not to this extent. Take advantage of that.</p>