Financial Aid for Fifth years in UCs

Kender
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:56:06 +0000

pk38555, this thread is over a year old, but here’s the information anyways:

Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements vary from college to college (even from UC to UC).

UCLA’s for length of time to be eligible for financial aid:

Term Count
The Financial Aid Office looks at the overall number of terms in which the student has been enrolled to determine continued eligibility for financial aid. After 18 terms of full-time enrollment or the equivalent as a part-time student, no additional financial aid will be granted.

Transfer students are eligible for continued aid based upon the number of fulltime quarters completed at the time of transfer. In determining this amount, the number of transferable units are divided by 15 to arrive at the number of quarters exhausted. For example, if a student is credited with 90 transfer units, he/she has used six (6) quarters of eligibility and has 12 quarters remaining.

A change of academic major or the pursuit of a double major or minor does not extend eligibility for financial assistance.



Emphasis mine. Seems fairly generous to me. That’s six years for those who entered as frosh and even transfers (who entered with the bare minimum 90 units to transfer as a junior) would still have four years of remaining eligibility.