Satisfactory Academic Progress

To receive and maintain eligibility for aid, you must make satisfactory academic progress toward your degree. This means that you must earn a minimum number of credits each term. Credit is earned for A, B, C, D and P. Credit is not earned for W, I, Y, N, AU and F. 

The minimum number of credits required is based upon the enrollment level used to determe your aid eligibility.

At the end of summer, fall and winter terms, the number of credits you have earned is compared to your minimum credit requirement. Depending on the number of credits earned, your are then set to either Satisfactory, Warning, Probation or Hold.

Once on hold you are not eligible for aid until you either complete the equivalent of a full time term without aid or successfully petition to have the aid released. Aid is defined as all federal, state, institutional and in most cases, private funds.

If you are on warning or probation you are still eligible for aid. However, you are required to make up all deficient credits by the end of spring term. At that time, your minimum credit requirement for summer, fall, winter and spring are combined. If you are deficient any number of credits, further aid is placed on hold.

Since satisfactory academic progress is cumulative, you can be placed on hold prior to the end of spring term if you complete so few credits in summer, fall, and winter that we cannot reasonably expect those credits to be made up by the end of spring.

Petition Process

Complete and submit a Satisfactory Academic Progress Petition. Forms are available in the Office of Student Financial Aid. Petitions for reinstatement are approved only if you can document extenuating circumstances and if there appears to be reasonable evidence that you will make satisfactory progress in the future.