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Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy

Kendall College academic policies require that a student maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0. Students who do not maintain this benchmark will be placed on Academic Probation for the following term and must contract to correct their performance with their Academic Advisor. Students who return to the required level during the Academic Probation term are returned to good standing, and those who do not will be academically suspended and ineligible for financial aid. Students may follow academic policies to appeal academic suspension, and the Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeals procedure listed below to appeal the loss of financial aid eligibility.

Federal regulations require the College to establish an academic progress policy for Federal financial aid recipients which is at least as strict as the academic progress policies applied to all students. The financial aid policy must address both minimum academic standards and a maximum time frame in which students must complete their program or degree.

Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Standards
In order to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress for financial aid purposes, a student must meet the minimum qualitative and quantitative academic benchmarks or be on Financial Aid Probation as described in this section.

The qualitative benchmarks mirror the 2.0 requirement in the academic policy described above and elsewhere in the Kendall College catalog. This is measured at the completion of each term. A student falling below this benchmark will be put on Financial Aid Probation for a single term during which the student must work with Academic Advising to achieve at least a 2.0 for courses attempted during the probationary term and increase or maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. The student is eligible for financial aid while on Financial Aid Probation. If a student fails to achieve a term GPA of 2.0 during the term of Financial Aid Probation, the student becomes ineligible for financial aid funds until the cumulative GPA benchmark is met.

If a student achieves a GPA of 2.0 during a term of Financial Aid Probation, but the cumulative GPA does not reach 2.0, the student must continue to achieve a minimum GPA of 2.0 during an additional term of Financial Aid Probation or become ineligible for financial aid funds until the GPA benchmarks are met. If all credits during the probationary term are "Pass/Fail," the student must earn an "S" for satisfactory completion of all credits attempted in order to continue in probationary status during the next quarter during which the student must achieve the minimum 2.0 GPA.

The quantitative benchmark requires the student to complete at least 67% of cumulative credits attempted. Students will have their cumulative credits earned versus attempted evaluated at the end of each term. A student falling below this benchmark will be put on Financial Aid Probation for a single term to improve the percentage of completed credits. The student is eligible for financial aid while on Financial Aid Probation. If a student fails to complete at least 80% of credits attempted during the term of Financial Aid Probation, the student becomes ineligible for financial aid until the overall credits completed/credits attempted percentage for Kendall College credits (including transfer credits) is brought to at least 67%. If a student completes at least 80% of credits attempted during a term of Financial Aid Probation, but the overall credits completed/credits attempted percentage is still less than 67%, the student must continue to achieve a minimum of 80% completion of credits attempted during an additional term of Financial Aid Probation or become ineligible for financial aid funds until the overall 67% benchmark is met.

A student may attempt no more than 150% of the credits in the major/degree program. If a student reaches a point in training where it is impossible for the program to be completed within 150% of the credits, the student immediately loses eligibility for financial aid.

The "credits attempted" total includes all credits attempted at Kendall College (or transferred in) for coursework which can be accepted toward the current major or degree. All terms at Kendall are included, not just those for which Title IV received. However:

• Courses dropped during the term's "Add/Drop" period are not considered to have been attempted.
• Courses dropped after the "add/drop" period receive a grade of "W" and count as attempted credits.
• Original credits for repeated courses do count as attempted credits but do not count in the GPA.
• Incomplete grades count as credits attempted and not completed but do not impact GPA.