<p>Alex- go meet with your professor now. Right now. Do not get started on a path of becoming a Freshman again and resetting your clock, letting your loans mount without any progress towards you degree. See what can be done to salvage this class, and then figure out how not to wrong next time. Do not shove this back in the closet as a bad experience from which nothing can be learned. First meet with the professor. Then go see the financial aid counselor. Don’t take out any loans or accept any more money until you understand what went wrong and what your options are.</p>
<p>Since I lost my financial aid does this means my life is over?</p>
<p>Your life is not over. Go make an appointment with your professor and stop coming up with reasons not to.</p>
<p>AlexCMDR, when you hit snags, you really need to go and talk to people who can help–and in real life, not on CC. It is possible that if you only failed one class, you can take one class at your own expense over the summer, and then continue at the university where you have been. But the requirements vary a lot from school to school, and only your advisor can tell you about the requirements that apply to you.</p>
<p>Well since I’m not eligible for the pell grant anymore how about a loan I have to pay back after graduation? (Ex. Stafford loan, Perkins loan,etc)</p>
<p>When you are ineligible for financial aid, that includes federal loans. You need to talk to your financial aid department. Ineligibility for aid is not permanent. You can become eligible again. Talk to your FA department about what you need to do to become eligible again.</p>
<p>Since I’m ineligible at my current school when I apply as a new student and “starting over” at the 2 year school I’m applying to will I still be ineligible?</p>
<p>You can’t “start over” at a new school. You will be required to submit transcripts from your first college. If you are transferring, you need to find out the SAP (satisfactory academic progress) requirements for your new school. If you have not met those requirements, you will not be eligible for federally funded aid there until you DO meet the requirements,</p>
<p>And don’t mess around with not sending transcripts from college number one. It is VERY easy to see when a student attended a previous college…especially when financial aid is applied for.</p>
<p>Then a private loan maybe?</p>
<p>You will need a cosigner for a private loan. But yes, that is a possibility. </p>
<p>You MUST find out what you will need to do to satisfy SAP. Once you meet that requirement, you should again again be eligible for federal aid.</p>
<p>By the way how about I just take a semester off and “start over” that way?</p>
<p>You can NOT just start over. You will be required to send that transcript if you take five years off.</p>
<p>Geez Alex. If you were this dogged about speaking to your prof, you’d be fine. Really. You need to get off of CC, begging for “feel good” advice and spk w/your prof. You live in the real world with real consequences. It’s your responsibility.</p>
<p>Why speak with the professor the semester is over now.</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask him the question that is the title of this thread?</p>
<p>That remark is totally uncalled for. You should be ashamed of yourself.</p>
<p>Well here’s some bad news and some good news (sort of). Bad news is I did fail the course and the sort of good news is the community college I was planning on “starting over” with has an open door policy which means they admit any student student regardless of their academic standing.</p>
<p>Alex, getting admitted into a new community college is not the issue we are discussing. Yes, most community colleges have open admission. But the question is…how will you pay for this? </p>
<p>my only choice now is getting a private loan.</p>
<p>Another option is working for awhile to pay off previous loans and save up some money. </p>