should be aware of your academic status at all times and should not wait on official notice to start your appeal process. 150% Rule While the minimum standard is based on hours achieved and not attempted, all hours attempted count toward the maximum length of your degree program. We may only offer you financial aid for 150 percent of the hours required for your degree. For example, for a degree program requiring 120 semester hours to graduate, financial aid eligibility ends after 180 semester hours are attempted, whether or not those hours are achieved. Steady progress toward your degree is crucial to maintaining eligibility for aid. If you retake a course, only the highest grade will count in the tally for academic quality, but the original course will continue to count in the total hours attempted. If you withdraw from a course after the regular drop/add period at the beginning of each term, you may receive a grade of W. That course will continue to count in the total hours attempted for your degree program. If you withdraw or take a leave of absence from school mid-semester and re-enroll at a later date, those courses from which you withdrew will also count toward time spent on your degree program. One semester of withdrawals, or one or two withdrawals after the end of the drop/add period, will not cause any problem. However, a continued pattern of enrolling and withdrawing from a class or classes before completing them will result in financial aid eligibility ending before you have achieved your degree. Coursework transferred into Emory & Henry College toward your enrollment here also counts within the 150 percent rule. Further information on satisfactory academic progress for receiving financial aid is available in the Emory & Henry College Financial Aid Handbook available online under Costs & Financial Aid, Resources, or you may contact the Director of Student Financial Planning. Terms for Disbursement of Aid All financial aid administered by Emory & Henry College is credited directly to the student’s tuition account in the college’s Centralized Student Assistance Office, with the exception of work-study wages which are disbursed in the form of paychecks to the students each month following submission of a timesheet. For each regular semester a student is enrolled in at least 12 semester hours and eligible to receive aid, one-half of his or her total financial aid award for that academic year is credited to his or her account after the end of the registration add/drop period, as actual funds are received from the source of the financial aid. All financial aid funds are disbursed with priority given to students who complete the application process by the deadlines specified in the Centralized Student Assistance Office. Late applicants, even if qualified, may fail to receive funds. Students who have not previously made arrangements to be less than full time and had their aid appropriately recalculated will find their financial aid adjusted after the end of the add/drop period of registration, based on the number of hours for which they actually enroll. The college may withhold payment of financial aid funds, in whole or in part, for any semester during which any of the following conditions is found to exist: • The student fails to comply with all federal aid regulations; •
The student is not maintaining satisfactory academic progress as defined above;
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