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Academic Progress
 
You must make satisfactory academic progress as defined below to be eligible for financial aid. If you are suspended for failure to make satisfactory progress you become ineligible for financial aid. Academic Affairs or the Registrar must reinstate your eligibility for financial aid. A decision to allow you to register for course work does not reinstate your eligibility for financial aid.

Satisfactory Academic Progress
Continuing students in all programs must receive a minimum of 75 percent of the credit for which they are eligible each semester in order to be making satisfactory progress. New students completing their first semester at the School who fail to meet this requirement are given a grace period of one semester. In addition, you must be making sufficient quantitative progress (measured in credit hours attempted) in completing your program to satisfy Department of Education guidelines. If your Studio Program Review is satisfactory, you will be awarded block credit.

Failure to Make Satisfactory Progress

Warning
: You will be given a warning if you do not receive a minimum of 75 percent of the credit for which you are eligible in your first semester.

Probation: If you are a continuing student, you will be considered on probation if you do not receive a minimum of 75 percent of the credit for which you are eligible in any semester and, when relevant, do not maintain a cumulative GPA of C– or better. Grades of W (withdrawn), NC (no credit), NS (no-show), and I (incomplete) in academic classes will affect your record by impacting on the assessment of credit attempted or received.

Suspension: After being placed on probation, you will be suspended if you fail to make satisfactory progress for a second (consecutive or non-consecutive) semester.