Financial aid credit hours cut off?

biologynerd
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:39:50 +0000

It’s a large public university in Florida. I would give the name, but for confidentiality purposes I can’t do that. Yes, I have checked their policies and it is 90 hours in residency alotted for juniors; however, I transferred my freshman year after the fall semester (I took spring off and transferred for the summer semester). I had credits from AP/IB but they are counting the credits twice because I had some overlap with English I and II and Gen Psychology. So they’re saying I transferred as a junior even though I transferred as a sophomore because I should have 51 credits from AP/IB not 60 (because 9 are duplicates). I changed my major twice and now they’re saying 90-56=34 credit hours left. I’m so mad because even though I had credits they were gen eds, so its not like I had a ton of really useful credits for any major. I’ve only been at this school for a year…If I transferred as a sophomore I would be alotted 135 hours. And they’re telling me there is no way to fix it.

I mean these are federal loans, I don’t have a pell grant or any “no string attached” money so I don’t understand why they are being so strict about it.