Handbook Flip Book Update November 2016

Evaluation of SAP Performance 

Office of Student Financial Services will review each student’s progress after each term (including the summer term, if applicable) and a student will be notified if the results of an evaluation impact financial aid eligibility.  All periods of enrollment while enrolled at Suffolk University Law School (including study abroad and consortium agreement terms) are considered when evaluating SAP.  Only credit-bearing coursework will be considered as attempted credits for the purposes of SAP evaluation.  When a student receives a final grade for a course which was previously incomplete, the SAP evaluation will only be recalculated at the student’s request.  Credits dropped during the add/drop period are excluded from the SAP evaluation.  Students may retake a course for credit and each time a student enrolls in a course, it will count as attempted credits. If a student repeats a course, both the original grade and the grade received upon repetition of the course shall be included in the student’s grade point average.  If a student changes programs within the Law School, the Office of Student Financial Services will evaluate SAP only for credits and grades which are applicable to the new program.  For students enrolled in the LLM Program, only previous academic coursework accepted for purposes of advanced academic standing will be considered in the calculation to determine SAP. These credits are treated as transfer credits.  All dual degree students must meet the criteria for SAP at the Law School, even if all attempted credits are at the Sawyer Business School and/or College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, dual degree students must meet SAP requirements for the Sawyer Business School and College of Arts and Sciences portions of their programs. Failure to Maintain SAP – Automatic Warning Semester Law students not meeting the minimum SAP requirements are placed on financial aid warning and will receive a written warning indicating they have not met SAP standards. Financial aid warning lasts for one academic term. During the financial aid warning period, financial aid will be awarded and the student will be given one term to improve his/her academic standing. No action is required of the student who is placed on warning status and no appeal of the decision to place a student on financial aid warning is permitted. If a student’s subsequent SAP evaluation determines the student is still not meeting SAP standards, the student will be notified in writing that he/she is ineligible for future financial aid. Students should be aware this includes all federal, institutional and many alternative loan programs. If a student is ineligible for financial aid due to failure to make SAP after the warning term, he/she may request reconsideration by submitting an appeal to the Office of Student Financial Services for a probationary semester.

Appeal for a Probationary Semester

129