<p>My friend goes to my same CC, and she is a Pell Grant and Bright futures (Florida) recipient. We were trying to register some classes and she got this message:</p>
<p>Based on your academic transcript, the status of your academic progress is 150% rule hours > 89 as of Fall 2012.</p>
<p>The thing is she has not graduated with an AA as she switched her major and still does not have the requirements to graduate with an AA, and she will transfer to a 4 year next year. What does this mean? Thank you everyone.</p>
<p>Many programs at community college require between 60-64 credits to complete. If your friend has 89 credits than she may be at the 150% which may put her at risk for not getting additional aid. She needs to find out if she will get the aid to finish there or if she has to transfer to a 4 year school</p>
<p>@sybbie719 Thank you! She was a General Major so what if she switches her Major to a BS within the Community college and then transfers out?</p>
<p>She needs 2 math classes to transfer out because the other school wont accpet her without those two maths as she will be a junior transfer, so after those classes she will transfer out.</p>
<p>To be eligible for financial aid a student has to meet the SAP (satisfactory academic progress) requirements of the school. These can vary a little between school within federal guidelines. SAP includes things such as the minimum GPA required, a minimum % of all attempted classes satisfactorily completed, and a maximum number of attempted hours. The maximum number of attempted hours (this includes all hours attempted including withdrawals and fails) is usually around 150% of the hours required for a degree at the school. For instance if an AA requires 60 hours, then the maximum hours allowed would be 90 hours.</p>
<p>It sounds like your friend has exceeded the maximum hours allowed under her school’s SAP policy. She needs to discuss this ASAP with the FA department to see if she is eligible for FA and if she is not is there an appeals process.</p>
<p>She also needs to be aware that SAP will apply when she continues on to a 4 year school and be cautious about how many hours she is taking. Rules around FA are tightening up and her FA may run out before she completes her education if she is not careful. For instance, the Pell grant maximum lifetime limits are 600% or 6 full time school years of Pell (the couple of years where additional Pell was available contribute to this maximum). I believe Florida bright futures only covers up to 120 credit hours or the hours required for a degree (though she should check this out herself). If she already has 89 hours and is taking another 6, she will be up to 95 hours. This possibly leaves only 25 hours that will be covered by bright futures. Federal student Loans also have an aggregate maximum.</p>
<p>edited to add a link to the Florida Bright futures scholarship length information
<a href=“Home - Florida Student Scholarship & Grant Programs”>Home - Florida Student Scholarship & Grant Programs;
<p>@swimcatsmom Thank you! We checked it out and she won the award on 2008-2009 so the maximum is 132 hours which is not a whole lot, but it is a little bit more and will hopefully cover her to her 4 years.</p>
<p>If she gets an AA on this institution, does this end her Aid from bright Futures for her Bachelors? Or will Bright Futures keep going so she can go to her 4 year school?</p>
<p>It should keep going until she reaches the number of hours required for her bachelors or the 132 hours. (Most bachelors degrees require in the region of 120+ hours.) It seems fairly likely she will go over this though if she already has 89 (soon to be 95) hours at a CC. She needs to check with her FA department to be sure. </p>
<p>I don’t know about Florida schools, but our State Us require you to take at least 60 hours at a 4 year school in order to get a bachelors degree so excessive hours from a CC do not contribute to the bachelors. Has she checked how many hours she will need to take at the 4 year institution?</p>
<p>Also, has she been receiving full time Pell every year - 5 years and about to go into a 6th? She can only get 6 years of Pell.</p>
<p>No, she does not know, she just knows she will transfer as a Junior. We will find out tho, thank you swimcatsmom :)</p>
<p>No, she has been on Pell since the 2009 -2010 school year, so I think this will be her 4th. So even if she gets an AA from her CC, will her Bright Futures keep going for her BS?</p>
<p>As far as I can tell from the BF website, it will keep going for her BS until she reaches the maximum hours allowed under the program. If the maximum credit hours allowed is 132, then it sounds like she has 43 hours of eligibility left (and she will use 6 of these on the math classes needed to transfer?). It seems likely she will exceed these hours before she attains her BS as she has used up so many already for her AA (assuming all her classes are freshman/sophomore level classes - she may still need 60+ upper level classes). This is something she needs to discuss with her FA department or the BF people as they will have more expertise about BF than I do.</p>