Appeals
Any student on SAP suspension may appeal to the SAP Appeals Committee. An appeal for reinstatement must be based on specific extenuating circumstances. Examples may include but are not limited to health reasons, family reasons, or personal reasons. The appeal statement of the student should explain the extenuating circumstances. Documentation supporting the extenuating circumstances must be submitted. Documentation may include one or more of the following: signed statement from a physician on letterhead, death certificate or newspaper obituary, signed statement from employer on letterhead, etc. The appeals form and procedures may be obtained on the Chattahoochee Tech website under “Enrollment”, “Financial Aid” and then “Satisfactory Academic Progress.”
All appeals are reviewed by the Financial Aid Appeals Committee (FAAC). SAP appeal decisions are not guaranteed by the Fee Payment Deadline and students may have to pay out of pocket and be reimbursed if financial aid is reinstated.
If otherwise eligible, a student may be awarded financial aid for the semester in which the student regained SAP or for which an appeal was approved
The decision of the SAP Appeals Committee is final and cannot be appealed further. The FAAC will communicate with students via Chattahoochee Tech student email.
To regain eligibility for all financial aid, a student must be meeting the required standards.
Appeal Information
Any student on SAP suspension may appeal to the Financial Aid Appeals Committee. An appeal for reinstatement must be based on specific extenuating circumstances. Examples may include,
but are not limited to, health reasons, family reasons, or personal reasons. The appeal statement for the student should explain the extenuating circumstances. Documentation supporting the
extenuating circumstance(s) must accompany any appeal. Documentation may include one or more of the following: signed statement from a physician on letterhead, death certificate or
newspaper obituary, signed statement from employer on letterhead, etc. The appeal form, and procedures, may be obtained on the Chattahoochee Tech website under “Enrollment”, “Financial Aid” and then “Satisfactory Academic Progress.”
Appeal Deadlines and Academic Plans
The deadline for submitting an appeal will be noted on the Satisfactory Academic Progress section of the website. Students who are enrolled and awaiting the status of an appeal must secure payment for their schedules prior to any payment deadline. Students who have their appeals granted, are reinstated for financial aid eligibility in a conditional status and given an academic plan. Students will remain on conditional status (eligible) for the length of their academic plan provided they meet the conditions of their academic plan each term. The student is expected to be making SAP at the end of that term or be successfully following an academic plan designed to ensure the student will be able to meet SAP by a specific point in time. The academic plan is developed by the Financial Aid Appeals Committee. SAP Appeals are reviewed by the Financial Aid Appeals Committee and the decision of the committee is final. Students will be notified of the Financial Aid Appeals Committee decision via his or her Chattahoochee Tech e-mail account only. Financial Aid may be reinstated more than once, however, SAP Appeals submitted after an approval must be submitted with a new extenuating circumstance than the one submitted with the previous approved appeal. Financial aid will not be reinstated with appeals based on the same reason as the previous approved appeal. A student can regain financial aid eligibility by meeting the SAP standards or the conditions set forth in their academic plan. Neither paying for classes a term nor sitting out for period(s) of enrollment, is sufficient, alone, to regain financial aid eligibility. A student is considered in good standing when their GPA is 2.0 and above, they are passing at least 67% of attempted classes and they are within 150% of program completion.