<p>I registered at my local CC this semester after dropping out of UCLA 12 years ago. Long story short, was struggling with depression my senior year, dropped out, and never went back to pursue music degree. Now I want to hurry up and transfer so I can get my degree in business.</p>
<p>I applied FAFSA for this year and my EFC is zero as I am unemployed the last 2 years. I qualified for Board of Governor Fee Waiver. Yesterday the school sent me an email saying my financial aid is suspended because I exceeded the max timeframe. I have 178 units. The letter said I can appeal if I have an extenuating circumstance?</p>
<p>Is it worth it to appeal? Do I qualify for anything? What are my options. I'm afraid I won't be able to afford going back to school. Time is running out for me because iam2old.</p>
<p>I re-googled everything since it’s been quite some time since I last looked up BOG eligibility and I do recall some groups attempting to have a unit cap placed on the waiver. However, I found nothing to indicate a unit cap on BOG has ever been approved.</p>
<p>Are they telling you that you’ve exceeded for even BOG? I have no doubt with that many units (if semester as I’m assuming they are) that you’ve exceeded the amount allowed for other financial aid, but you should still receive BOG unless I’m not seeing where something was passed. Would be odd to not since it’s still able to be used by those already holding an undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>If you havent earned a paycheck in two years, how have you been supporting your family?
What were you doing before you became unemployed?
Your best bet I think is to train through the state so you can work in the field, get hired by a company - say H & R block and get them to pay you to go back to school.</p>
<p>Because I was a music major and I now want to get a degree in business with accounting emphasis. Since I was a music major, I didn’t take any classes related to business and it is cheaper to do pre reqs in business.</p>
<p>Yes they say I don’t qualify for BOG, nor Pell, or any grants. The grants I understand but BOG? I am a California resident and taking 13 units this semester.</p>
<p>I was living overseas for 2 years. My husband is a British citizen and I am working on his visa to immigrate. I had to move back as no work is available in UK. Since i am looking for work, i might as well go back to school and get my degree.</p>
<p>A lot of your story does not matter when it comes to financial aid eligibility. All that matters is if you have used it all up. Rules have been changed and there are new limits and people are not grandfathered in with the older standards. So you may be out of luck. You need to get every bit of information as to what you were given in aid and sit down with the college financial aid officer and see if you meet any eligibility or not. It is possible some error has been made and you have some left. But you also may have zero left and have to pay out of your own pocket to go into another field or find other programs to subsidize you.</p>
<p>But the OP hasn’t used up BOG eligibility. You can’t. There is currently no unit cap nor is there a “degree cap” so to speak. BOG just waives the $46/unit (semester) fee for California residents. They do appear to have exceeded for all other aid that has had new caps implemented, though.</p>
<p>OP, which CCC is this exactly? Have you looked to see if they say something different about BOG than other schools?</p>
<p>I did finally find where a unit cap was on the table this year, but it was also removed. I’m digging a little more, but it would help to know exactly which CCC. You really should talk to them to find out why BOG is being denied for a unit cap when it has none.</p>
<p>If you can’t pay CCC costs out of pocket this year (about 2K at most), how will you afford the new transfer school? Will you even qualify for loans at the transfer student with almost 200 units by the time you register?</p>
<p>Most UCs don’t take “senior level” transfer stundents, btw.</p>