DEADLINE TONIGHT! Please help!

[claddaghmom]

Quick question that I need to know by tonight b/c midnight is the cutoff date to drop a class w/o paying for it.

Currently I am full time at one university and part time at a 2nd university. If I drop one class at the f/t university, will my financial aid still consider my status as full time? This is a state grant I am talking about (not the school grants).

So together I am in overload status. If I drop one class I am p/t time at both schools or f/t altogether. But how do they view this?

The class is a huge schedule conflict but losing the money is a bigger conflict.


Please help!

[AndrewsMother]

Originally Posted by claddaghmom

Quick question that I need to know by tonight b/c midnight is the cutoff date to drop a class w/o paying for it.

Currently I am full time at one university and part time at a 2nd university. If I drop one class at the f/t university, will my financial aid still consider my status as full time? This is a state grant I am talking about (not the school grants).

So together I am in overload status. If I drop one class I am p/t time at both schools or f/t altogether. But how do they view this?

The class is a huge schedule conflict but losing the money is a bigger conflict.


Please help!

Let me know once you receive an answer.

[FourTrees]

I think most schools base full-time or part-time status on a certain number of credit hours. For example, 9 credit hours at one college I attended was considered 3/4 time, but anything over 12 credit hours was considered full-time. So, it really depends on how many classes you are taking and what your institution considers the minimum credit hours for full-time status. Try looking at your school's website to see if you can find their info...

[Drummer's Wife]

You should be able to find this info out on your University's web site.

For my school, 6-11 credits are part-time (half-time), 12+ credits full-time. Financial aid (grant money, not loans) is based off this, and they pretty much cut it in half. Like, it didn't matter that I took 8 credits one semester, and 6 another -- both were considered part- time b/c they didn't add up to 12 and my aid money was the same. But like fourtrees said, it could be that they break it down to 3/4 time, which would mean more money than half-time.

good luck figuring it out.

[ck29_2000]

Check your school website. If you're dropping before the payment date it most likely will affect your aide if you drop below full time. Your status is determined by the number of hours at EACH university, so you can't take half and half and add it up to whole. Just like you are on the bottom rung for credits when you transfer in as they don't count for the priority enrolling. (at least not around here arg)

[SoulCakes]

I think the OP is wondering if financial aid is determined by the combined number of credits taken at both schools altogether.

OP, no, I don't believe it is. If you drop below FT status at the school through which you're receiving financial aid, then they'll cut your aid to reflect that. As far as I know financial aid assumes you're only going to one school at a time, and doesn't have a mechanism for handling two schools at once (unless you've applied for aid at both schools, in which case they still won't take into account the other school's credits in determining how much financial aid you should be awarded).

Don't drop the course.

[Drummer's Wife]

oh. no, my understanding is that you cannot receive aid at more than one school during the same semester... though, I suppose they could make an exception if it was something you worked out ahead of time with both fin aid offices... but I bet it's very rare, b/c they risk of awarding you too much money.

[AndrewsMother]

The OP does not want to receive Financial Aid a both institutions.

What she wants to know is if she enrolls in 9 hours at school "A" and 3 hour at school "B" will 12 total hours qualify her to receive her maximum financial aid award.

Pell grants can't

[~pi]

Can you call the relevant state office to find out?

[Carita]

I assume it is too late. Each school is different, you really need to contact the school you are at for most of your credits school and work it out with them. I know that at my school you had to go through some kind of form filling out and preapproval process and getting your class at the PT university signed off on to have it count for FT FA all together, but it could count.