You may appeal to regain your eligibility for financial aid if you had extenuating circumstances which prevented you from making satisfactory academic progress. Extenuating circumstances are significant life experiences that impacted your emotional and/or physical health so much that you were unable to make good academic progress.

You may not base your appeal on:

• Your need for financial aid
• Your lack of knowledge that your financial aid was in jeopardy

Appeals must include:

• The Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeal form.
• A letter from the student explaining the circumstances which prevented satisfactory academic progress in the past and how/why those circumstances affected the student. An explanation from the student as to how the circumstances have been resolved so that you can make satisfactory academic progress in the future. Include the steps/resources you plan to take to improve your academic record.
• Documentation to support/verify the circumstances cited in the letter. For example, illness and/or injury can be documented with hospital or insurance records; a death can be documented with an obituary or funeral card; divorce can be documented with signed letter from a lawyer or a copy of the divorce decree, etc. Letters must be signed and must contain contact information (the phone number, email address, etc.) of the person who wrote and signed the letter. Documentation cannot be from family members, significant others, roommates, etc.
• If a student is appealing due to the maximum time frame (150%), the appeal must include a list of the student’s remaining degree requirements signed by the student’s advisor or an academic specialist in the student’s college of study.