Financial aid credit hours cut off?

swimcatsmom
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:41:01 +0000

Search on your school’s web site for their SAP - satisfactory academic progress - policy. This details their criteria for financial aid eligibility including the maximum credit hours, GPA etc…

Each school will have their own policy. At both my kids schools the maximum credits were 150% of the hours required for a degree. So if the hours required were 120 then after 180 eligibility for aid was lost. But check with your own school for their policy.

Also different types of aid may have different policies so you need to check into that. For instance a scholarship from the institution may have its own policy (my daughter has a scholarship where part of it is for 5 years and the other part is only for 4 years). Some state programs may have their own maximum hours. I know someone posted the other day about Georgia’s Hope program which tops out at 126 hours or thereabouts. If you are receiving florida bright futures you should check into whether that has a maximum credit hour policy.

Go and have a sit down with someone in your FA office for some guidance. We have found FA people to generally be very helpful.

Good luck.