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Assistance with Financial Aid Applications

* Incomplete grades will not count toward your
completion rate (pace) in the term in which they are
received but will be evaluated the following term.

Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)

* If a student falls below the cumulative minimum 67%,
they will be placed on financial aid warning, such
students will be given the following term (semester) in
which to raise their cumulative completion rate above
the required 67%.

Assistance in completing the financial aid application is
available from the Office of Financial Aid and Registration.

Students attending Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
who wish to receive financial aid, in addition to meeting other
eligibility criteria, must be in good academic standing and
making satisfactory academic progress (SAP) in their degree
or certificate program. SAP will be reviewed at the end of
each term or semester once grades are posted. If a grade
change should occur after this process, the students' progress
will be revaluated. Students who fail to make progress will
first be placed on a financial aid warning for SAP. Students
who fail to make progress on a semester they are on warning
will become ineligible for financial aid until they have met the
SAP requirements. Future financial aid disbursements will be
on hold until SAP requirements are satisfied. Students may
appeal being ineligible for failure to meet SAP requirements.
If an appeal is granted, the student will be placed on financial
aid probation for SAP. Any student who fails to meet the
requirements of SAP while on probation will become ineligible
for financial aid until they have met all SAP requirements. This
cannot be appealed.

* If a student fails to meet the requirements during the
warning period they will lose their financial aid until
they have met the requirements listed below. Loss of
Financial Aid includes Title IV funding and institutional
funding.
* Transfer credits will be counted as successful
completion in the pace calculation but do not count in
the GPA calculation.
* Repeat courses will count as attempted each time they
are part of an enrollment. They will count as completed
the first time a satisfactory grade is earned for that
course.

a. Quality Of Progress - "Good Academic Standing"
(Effective Fall 2017)
* Students requesting aid must maintain a 2.0 GPA.
This requirement includes pre-major coursework. If
a student falls below the required 2.0 GPA they will
be placed on financial aid warning for the following
semester in which they must bring their GPA up to the
required 2.0.
* If a student fails to meet the requirements during the
warning period they will lose their financial aid until
they have met the GPA requirement. Loss of Financial
Aid includes Title IV funding and institutional funding.
b. Quantity Of Progress - "Pace Of Unit Completion"
TSCT students must complete at least two-thirds (67%)
of all units in which they originally enroll from the time of
first attendance in their program. Thus, a first-term TSCT
student who originally enrolls in 9 units, withdraws from 3
units, and successfully completes the remaining 6 units,
would be meeting the quantitative measure requirement
since the student did pass at least two-thirds (67%) of the
units in which he or she originally enrolled.
Students requesting aid must make progress toward a
degree as follows:
* Full-time: 12 units per term and/or 24 units per year
(complete average of 8 per term)
* ¾ time: 9 units per term and/or 18 units per year
(complete average of 6 per term)
* ½ time: 6 units per term and/or 12 units per year
(complete average of 4 per term)
These grades are considered to demonstrate satisfactory
course completion: A, B, C, D, T and P.
These grades do not demonstrate successful course
completion: F, I, W, WIP, WF and WP.

c. Quantity Of Progress - "Maximum Time Frame"
Students must finish their academic program within 150%
of the published length of the program.
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