Enrollment Status
For most students, the amount of financial aid they will receive is based on his or her enrollment status on the day after the census date, and aid will be adjusted accordingly. Fall I, Spring I, and Summer I enrollments will be determined on the day after the census date for the Fall, Spring, and/or Summer semesters. For students who are packaged after the census date, the amount of financial aid they will receive is based on his or her enrollment status as of the date they are packaged. For students who complete their file after the semester is completed, their aid will be based upon their final enrollment status and will include only courses completed (includes earned F’s, in progress and incompletes), and dropped classes or withdraws will not be included in determining enrollment status.
Enrollment status will be determined according to the following: full-time, 12-semester hours or more; three-quarter time, 9 to 11-semester hours; half-time, 6 to 8-semester hours; and less-than-half-time, 1 to 5-semester hours. Courses the student enrolls in for the second compressed semester (Fall II, Spring II, or Summer II) will be excluded from the student’s enrollment status until balance checks for the Fall, Spring, and/or Summer semester have been disbursed. There is a 30-semester hour limit for remedial course work for any individual student. Remedial hours attempted beyond the 30-hour limit will not be included in course load for determining enrollment status. Repeated courses will be included in determining course load as long as the repeated course is not the result of more than one repetition of a previously passed course.
Courses that do not count toward a student’s degree plan or certificate, with the exception of remedial courses, cannot be included to determine his or her enrollment status. Audit means to attend a course without working for or expecting to receive formal credit; therefore, audit classes cannot be included to determine a student’s enrollment status. If the student enrolls in a compressed semester (Fall I or Fall II, Spring I or Spring II, or Summer I or Summer II) or in a mini-term that is included as part of the previous semester (December or May mini) the student’s final enrollment status for determining grant eligibility that semester, is the day after the census date for the semester of the last course taken. If a student drops, withdraws from or adds a class on or before the census date, the student’s enrollment status will be adjusted and the student’s grant aid recalculated. Recalculations will include both increases and decreases in enrollment up to the day after the census date of the student’s last class.