Details about federal financial aid eligibility requirements, including Stafford loans, can be found on the Financial Aid website. Students can become ineligible for all federal aid if they do not make satisfactory academic progress (SAP). A federal aid eligibility waiver process exists for students who have not met all three SAP standards by the end of the warning period. If mitigating extenuating circumstances existed during a student's federal aid warning period, the student may file for an aid waiver. Please refer to the notice about federal aid ineligibility to determine aid ineligibility issues and related required aid waiver documents.
Federal Aid Waiver Deadlines (all waiver applications must be turned in by the deadline date):
Summer 2025: August 15, 2025
Fall 2025: December 5, 2025
Spring 2026: May 8, 2026
To file an aid waiver:
Complete the Federal Aid SAP Waiver online process by the federal aid waiver deadline.
Upload a personal statement about what happened in your past semester and what will be different in the upcoming semester.
Upload official documentation of the relevant extenuating circumstances cited to support your waiver request.
The appeal should not only document the special circumstances (e.g., a letter from the student’s doctor) and explain how the circumstances affected the student’s performance, but also explain what has changed which will allow the student’s performance to improve
Please note, that you CANNOT proceed without uploading acceptable documentation.
Attach an Academic Plan with your academic adviser (if you have a PACE issue)
If the aid waiver is approved, the student will be placed on Financial Aid Probation, where they will continue to receive federal financial aid for one payment period or semester.
The student must meet all SAP requirements at the end of the probationary period or comply with the approved academic plan in order to continue to receive aid after the probationary period. If the student is still not making SAP or fails to meet the Academic Plan requirements after the probationary period, the student will become ineligible for federal financial aid until all three SAP standards are successfully met.
Citing such issues as work or extracurricular commitments, not being aware of college deadlines, and the difficulty level of course material as the mitigating extenuating circumstances will not result in an aid waiver approval.
Students are advised to submit an aid waiver as soon as they are notified by the Financial Aid Office of an SAP issue after grades post from the prior semester. Securing an aid waiver before the semester begins will reduce the likelihood of late fees and holds on accounts or allow students the maximum amount of time possible to secure alternate funding for their upcoming semester should their aid waiver request be denied.
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