Units and Financial Aid distribution

kelsmom
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:49:05 +0000

It all depends on the school’s “lock date” for financial aid. Where I worked, tuition refunds were not given after a certain point in time (2 weeks). At that time, financial aid was also locked. You still had to pay if even if you dropped the class, so aid stayed with you. On the flip side, if you added a class after the lock date, you wouldn’t get to use those extra hours to qualify for more aid. (And dropping all classes is a different story - that can prompt repayment due to the R2T4 calculations)

Even if your friend doesn’t lose any aid, he needs to be careful about withdrawing … all students should be aware that the requirements to continue to receive financial aid have been tightened up this year. Dropping here & there shouldn’t hurt a student, but a pattern of dropping classes can lead to problems with keeping aid in the future. See your school’s financial aid office for their SAP policy.