Gateway Technical College is dedicated to ensuring students have every opportunity to achieve their educational goals. Students receiving financial aid are responsible for maintaining an acceptable level of progress regarding quality and quantity of work. Students must meet all Good Academic Standing criteria.

A student's complete Gateway academic record from 1982 forward is used to determine if the student meets the Good Academic Standing standards set forth by the federal government. This includes terms for which the student did and did not receive financial aid.

Academic Standing is calculated at the end of each term and at initial import of a student's Financial Aid application. An academic standing status is determined and is in place for the next semester. Students who do not meet the Good Academic Standing criteria are notified.

To maintain financial aid eligibility, students must be in Good Academic Standing as outlined by the four criteria below:

• Minimum 2.0 term Grade Point Average (GPA)
• Minimum 67% term completion rate (also known as Pace)
  67% = credits completed divided by credits attempted (grades of F, U, W, R and I are counted as non-completions)

• Minimum 2.0 cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA). Cumulative GPA is calculated on all credits attempted at Gateway.
• Minimum 67% cumulative completion rate (all credits completed at Gateway and transferred to Gateway divided by total credits attempted).

Financial Aid Academic Standing Statuses:

Financial Aid Academic Warning

Students failing to meet the Good Academic Standing criteria listed above will be automatically placed on Financial Aid Academic Warning for the next term. Student on Financial Aid Academic Warning remain eligible to receive financial aid.

Students on Financial Aid Academic Warning are not restricted in the number of credits they may take, but must achieve a minimum 67% term completion rate (completed credits divided by attempted credits) and a minimum 2.0 term GPA to avoid being placed on Financial Aid Academic Suspension. Financial Aid Academic Warning students who meet or exceed all 4 criteria will be in Good Academic Standing for the next term.

Financial Aid Academic Suspension

Students on Financial Aid Academic Warning status who fail to meet all Good Academic Standing criteria will be placed on Financial Aid Academic Suspension.

Students on Financial Aid Academic Suspension may file a Financial Aid Academic Appeal to continue to be eligible for financial aid. If a student does not file a Financial Aid Academic Appeal he/she must meet all four Good Academic Standing criteria listed above to be eligible to receive any further financial aid.

Financial Aid Academic Probation

A student that has an approved Financial Aid Academic Appeal will be placed on Financial Aid Academic Probation and will be required to complete a Financial Aid Academic Plan. Students on Financial Aid Academic Probation are eligible to continue to receive financial aid if they:

• successfully achieve a 67% course completion rate each term
• receive a minimum 2.0 GPA each term
• meet all conditions of their Financial Aid Academic Plan

Failure to meet these criteria will result in Financial Aid Academic Suspension and the student will not be eligible for any further financial aid until all four Good Academic Standing criteria are met.

Duration of Financial Aid Eligibility - The 150% Rule

A student that can no longer graduate by the time they have attempted 150% of the published credits for their program, as listed on their program requirement sheet, will immediately become ineligible for financial aid. Credits taken for this program will be excluded from financial aid enrollment status if a student is enrolled in another program.

All credits for classes a student attempted at any time while attending Gateway Technical College listed on the program requirement sheet count toward the 150%, regardless of whether financial aid was received for those credits or not. Each credit a student takes while in the program counts towards the 150% regardless of whether or not they are listed on the program requirement sheet.

Total credits attempted include all classes students have:

• Taken at Gateway Technical College and transferred in from any other college/university
• Repeated or failed (R or F)
• Been issued an incomplete or withdrawn from (I, W)

When students change programs of study, all credits that they have ever taken at Gateway or transferred to Gateway are evaluated toward the new program. Some of those credits may be counted as electives.

Students exceeding the allowable 150% of their current program will be on Financial Aid Academic Suspension (not eligible to receive financial aid). Students on Financial Aid Academic Suspension can complete a Financial Aid Academic Appeal. Students who do not appeal, have a denied appeal or do not complete a Financial Aid Academic Plan will not be eligible to receive financial aid.

150% = credits required to complete program x 1.5 (150%). The students' total attempted credits for their current program must be less than this number.