Financial Aid

Maintaining Eligibility

In order to maintain financial aid eligibility students must maintain satisfactory academic progress toward a degree or certificate. Specifically, this means that full-time (12 or more credit hours per semester) undergraduate students must successfully complete nine or more hours each long semester and meet or exceed the appropriate cumulative grade point average for their classification. The minimum cumulative grade point requirements are as follows:

Credit Hrs Attempted	GPA
0-29	1.8
30 and above	2.0
Graduate Students	3.0

Grades of F, I, W, WP, X, #, NC, NG, DF, & WF will not satisfy the academic progress requirement.

Undergraduate financial aid applicants, pursuing fields other than occupational therapy, may not have registered for, earned or attempted more than 186 hours. Undergraduate occupational therapy majors may not have registered for, earned or attempted more than 276 hours. The maximum hours of possible eligibility include all hours registered for, earned or attempted at Texas Woman's University (TWU), plus any hours transferred to TWU, regardless of whether financial aid was received or when the hours were attempted or earned.

Undergraduate students who enroll for at least six credit hours, but less than 12 credit hours, must successfully complete at least six credit hours each long semester and meet or exceed the minimum cumulative grade point average for their classification.

Transfer students must meet the same satisfactory academic progress requirements and maximum enrollment limits as other students. All credits accepted for transfer will be used in determining satisfactory academic progress.

Students pursuing a second undergraduate degree must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 and not have registered for, earned or attempted more than 93 hours toward the second undergraduate degree.

Graduate students must successfully complete at least six credit hours each long semester with a minimum of 3.0 cumulative grade point average in order to maintain financial aid eligibility. Master's level financial aid applicants may not have registered for, earned or attempted more than 54 hours toward a master's degree. Doctoral level financial aid applicants may not have registered for, earned or attempted more than 90 hours toward a doctoral degree. The maximum hours include all hours at the master's or doctoral level from any institution regardless of whether aid was received. If a graduate applicant's curriculum requires more course work than the allowable maximum, a letter from the department chair specifying the total hours required must be submitted to the financial aid office for re-evaluation of the applicant's maximum enrollment limit.

Undergraduate and graduate students who enroll for less than six credit hours a semester must successfully complete each course attempted with the appropriate minimum cumulative grade point average.

In assessing satisfactory academic progress, the student's cumulative academic record will be evaluated each semester. Non-credit developmental courses do not count toward the minimum academic requirements for students who have completed 30 credit hours (Examples: Math 1113 and English 1003). Students will be permitted to repeat courses to improve their grades. The financial aid office will monitor the number of repeated courses to ensure that students are prudent in their decisions to repeat courses. Abuse of the repeat privilege will result in the loss of financial aid eligibility for one semester.

Failure to meet the minimum satisfactory academic progress requirements by any freshman or sophomore financial aid applicant or recipient will result in financial aid probation. An otherwise eligible student on financial aid probation will be permitted to receive aid for one more semester. If the student meets the minimum satisfactory academic progress requirements at the end of the probationary semester, he/she will return to good standing. Failure to meet the minimum standards at the end of the probationary semester will result in the loss of financial aid eligibility until the minimum standards are met. Failure to maintain the minimum cumulative grade point averages by juniors and seniors will result in the immediate suspension of financial aid.

A student who failed the satisfactory academic progress requirements may request a re-evaluation of his/her status once the academic requirements are met. Students on financial aid suspension may not receive any aid other than academic scholarships, student employment, or tuition and fees emergency loans while they are attempting to make up the deficiency.

If a student changes his/her major and begins pursuing a different degree or certificate, the student's limit of maximum attempted hours for completion of the new degree may be re-evaluated. It is the student's responsibility to inform the financial aid office of such a change in his/her course of study.

Students who experience mitigating circumstances during their enrollment, such as a divorce of a parent or spouse, death of an immediate family member or severe medical problems may appeal their status to the director of financial aid. Written documentation is required for an appeal.