Student TAP Coach - Make-up Deficiency

To be eligible for New York State student financial aid, you must remain in good academic standing, defined as pursuing a program of study and making satisfactory academic progress toward completing your program’s requirements.

If you fail to remain in good academic standing, then you lose eligibility for a subsequent award.

One of the ways you can regain eligibility is to make up the deficiency — whether you didn’t complete enough courses to satisfy the pursuit of program requirement or didn’t earn enough credits with satisfactory grades to make progress, or both — without the benefit of State financial aid.

For example, if you are at the 100 percent pursuit level — that is, you must get a grade in at least 100 percent of the minimum full-time course load of 12 credits — and you get a grade in only nine credits, then you must make up the three-credit shortfall at your own expense. To do this, you might take and get a grade in a three-credit course during a winter term or summer session to make up the deficiency without benefit of State student aid.

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