<p>My story is a weird at sac city college in sacramento ca started classes in the summer and fall as a under grad i went there in 1991 due to death in the family i had to stop going to college GPA levels never had a chance to be up graded due to family issue still i was on the hook for the loan in which i paid back know here it is 2010 the college throws me on probation eventho i did file my reason for not going to school with a SAP letter for the summer and fall the school gives me the run around uses my old GPA levels gives me 900. bucks for the summer semester i get dropped from the summer classes and fall due the schools late disburstment i see the dean and she tells me i have to pay to go to school out my own pocket and tells me if i file a complaint it wont fly ...in other words i am not getting financial aid after i was approved ...is there any complaint process to file against the college ? any help is welcomed ???</p>
<p>Some punctuation would help us greatly in making sense of your post.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the school has to follow federal guidelines for awarding aid and has their own policies for granting appeals. It sounds as if you didn’t complete the summer courses that you enrolled for…not clear whether you withdrew from all or not. I can’t follow your fall situation as you say that you’re on probation and receiving aid, but for some reason you’re unhappy. If you aren’t receiving aid, it’s probably because the school did not find your reason to be a compelling one, or perhaps they couldn’t understand your appeal letter. Afaik, there really isn’t any recourse if they denied your appeal. Pay for a few courses to get your credits/gpa up to SAP levels and, when you’re receiving financial aid, accept the fact that federal money comes with strings attached.</p>
<p>No there is no complain procedure. The FA office at each school has the final decision about things such as special circumstances and SAP appeals at their institution. There is not a complaint process.</p>
<p>The best thing would be to do well at a semester’s classes and bring yourself up to SAP then reapply for aid.</p>
<p>sorry about explaining it in a word mess …ive been frustrated by this big time and what happen was for the summer and fall the disburstment came late for my grant and i just plum ran out of money to afford to stay in school which effected my GPA levels i guess you can say who is at fault ? in the mean time i was dropped because of no txt books and supplies and meeting the class standards to complete …il have to try to re write another appeal and see what happens …the college students are not receiving there grants and i am not the only one …i am shure there is some way for a student to protect themselves along with the rules the college has set forth…but i am still enrolled so il prob file to not finish because i am completly broke trying to meet the demand of class …</p>
<p>Financial aid money is usually not disbursed until at least a month into school so students should be prepared to pay for their books out-of-pocket. It is <em>normal</em> for there to be such a delay and it is/was your responsibility to have the materials for class. Have you searched the college library for your textbook? (If you can’t find it at your branch, ask the librarian for help seeing if it’s available through interlibrary loan.) You can check the public libraries also. (They are less likely to have textbooks but may have some of your English books, for example.) If this is a common problem in your school, perhaps you and some other kids can pool your money and share books. I realize this is unorthodox but, again, you really do need books. If worse comes to worse, ask the professor if he/she has a spare copy for you to borrow until you get your financial aid money.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what happened, as OP’s posts are extremely confusing. Did you ever actually have your SAP appeal approved? If not, you should never have expected any money … appeals are not necessarily approved. Was your summer appeal approved? If so, did you fail to meet the standards set forth in the approval, thus losing your fall aid? In that case, again, you should never have expected money for fall.</p>
<p>Perhaps I am reading your posts incorrectly.</p>
<p>It may be that OP is texting from a cell phone. If that is the case, please, Dwayne50, stop that! It is very hard to follow. </p>
<p>Please take time to get to a computer and do a posting from a proper keyboard. You can explain the situation better and the vast amount of experienced people here can offer you truly helpful advice. </p>
<p>So far we are blocked from helping simply because your messages are so illegible. </p>
<p>My heart goes out to you. Financial aid offices are swamped right now. There are so many students in tough situations. There may not be much time or money to help a student whose situation is complex or overwhelming. </p>
<p>Read through your college website carefully so you understand the deadlines and drop dates and refund rules. </p>
<p>Be aware that you will NEVER be successful in college if you are not in class. If you have to work to pay bills and you miss class, then you will fail the class. There’s only so much a college can or will do if a student misses classes a great deal. It seems then like you are not serious about college. Colleges usually will work with a student FOR A LITTLE WHILE when there is a death or other challenges. But that tolerance is limited. For the college path to work for you, you have to find a way to get to the classes with the materials required. </p>
<p>You are also not going to get much help if you misspell things. You want “sure” not “shure” and you want to make sure you use the correct form of “there” or “their” or “they’re”. I know I am sounding awfully picky – but grammar mistakes can make a student sound like “not a good candidate for another chance”. That’s not fair but that is what can happen. </p>
<p>Many people who work a complaint desk can tell you within a few minutes who is going to fail at their appeal: the person who is angry, has a complicated, weird story and who acts like it is all somebody else’s fault. </p>
<p>Who succeeds? The person who is professional and mature in their presentation, who tells a clear story with documents to back up the story and who is willing to learn from any mistakes made. Please be the successful one! We would all love to hear that you succeeded.</p>
<p>Olymom…</p>
<p>You are a compassionate soul.<br>
I pre-judged, and then I read your post…
We could all learn a lession from you. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Wow. Olymom’s post is one of the best I’ve read (and I spend way, way too much time here). Please take it to heart, Dwayne, and let us know what happens!</p>
<p>I think anyone who reads Olymom’s post would agree that it is succinct, clear and well thought out! Bravo</p>
<p>I admit that I could not make heads or tails out of the OP’s story even with the second post after acknowledging a “word mess.” It did make me wonder if the low GPA was an appropriate reflection.</p>
<p>Thanks for the words of praise! Dwayne, please know that I was an Army brat and we moved a great deal. One year we moved just as the class was beginning to learn fractions. We were in transit for several weeks and by the time I was in my new class, everyone knew what to do with fractions. </p>
<p>I didn’t and I was terrified of fractions for years. I also had huge gaps in writing. It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I began to fill in pieces of knowledge that others had. </p>
<p>Antwon Fischer (whose life story is told in a movie of that name, starring Denzel Washington) speaks now to groups about the basic life skills that he missed as a kid who got bounced around – things like how to tie a tie were a mystery to him. </p>
<p>It can happen that the world seems like it is against us – when what’s really happening is that we are missing some chunks of information that other people have. That’s one of the things I like about CC. We can help each other find some of those “chunks.”</p>
<p>Good luck Dwayne!</p>
<p>I am currently a student at Sac City College.All my financial aid paperwork is current and my GPA is well over 2.0.The college is switching over to a debit card system, which is fine except that because they spelled my street name wrong…i was not registered with the debit card company…now they are telling me that i have to wait 21 days before they send me my financial aid.I have went all the way to the deans office but they continue to say the same thing… can some tell me the correct way to fight this?</p>
<p>I don’t think you really have any recourse. You’ll just have to wait. Sorry.</p>
<p>OK, I get the fustration. When you find out your financial aide is turned upside down after going through the documentation process on time and before time; it can really rattle your world. School is everything and when you are depending on aide to get you through it and funds fall short due to incompetance. Its enough to make you scream! SCC has the most mismanaged financial aide office I have ever experience in any college I have attended. I received my Summer check after finishing the semister not during. It about did me in. My Fall term it never arrived for they wanted to do a new SAP. My GPA is 2.9 and I am in Good Standing. That set me back and did not get the approval until late September which forced my aide to be dated back. Of course I had to drop classes for no money and got way behind with no books, gas money, parking money, supplies needed, etc. It is depressing for i have just a few classes left to finish. Its a mess! Now my money is in a Higher One Account I can not access for they made a mistake on card replacement processsing. I have to do the paper work again for they misplaced mine. I am not screaming, yet. I just want to talk about it and starting writing to anyone who will listen and complain to anyone who I think will do something about this mismanagement of my education funds. PS They do not give out my full award either. Anyway a lot of people are complaining about the Higher One.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Higher One. What I do know is that SAP is not just based on GPA (which, by the way is cumulative, not term by term). It is also based on completion (finishing a certain percentage of the courses you begin). In addition, if you have fewer than 12 credits, you Pell grant is automaticallly reduced (which may be why you did not get your full award?).</p>
<p>I cannot stress enough that FAFSAs should be submitted EARLY and verification documents should be submitted immediately. This way, there is time to handle any issues well before school begins.</p>