Student TAP Coach - Regaining Eligibility
If you fail to maintain good academic standing for financial aid purposes--for failure to make satisfactory academic progress or failure to pursue or both--you lose eligibility for a subsequent award.
Section 145-2.2(b)(2) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education specifies that "Following a determination that the recipient of an award has lost good academic standing, further payments under the award shall be suspended until the student is restored to good academic standing by either:
- Pursuing the program of study in which he is enrolled and making satisfactory progress toward the completion of his program's academic requirements for a period of one term; or
- Establishing in some other way, to the satisfaction of the commissioner, evidence of his ability to successfully complete an approved program."
In practice, there are four ways by which you can regain eligibility if you have lost good academic standing:
- Make up deficiencies without benefit of State student aid (as specified in subparagraph (i) above). For example, you are at the 75 percent pursuit level but received a grade in only six semester hours rather than the nine hours needed. You can take and complete at least a three-credit course and make up the deficiency to regain eligibility.
- Apply for and be granted a waiver in accordance with your college's established waiver policy if your failure to remain in good academic standing was due to extraordinary circumstances beyond your control.
- Be readmitted to the college after an absence of at least one calendar year (and without receiving State student aid at another institution) by meeting the college's academic requirements for readmission. (Note: if you have met the TAP requirements for good academic standing but are dismissed based on your college's academic standard that is higher than the TAP minimum, you are eligible for State student aid immediately upon return, regardless of the length of your absence from the college).
- Transfer to another institution where you must meet the new college's admission requirements.
You cannot regain eligibility by changing programs within an institution.
