Merit Scholarship Appeal Process

The Financial Aid Office reviews scholarship recipient’s academic standing at the end of each academic year, after spring semester, to ensure they are maintaining their scholarship requirements. Recipients failing to meet these requirements will lose their scholarship and be notified by email of their award termination. Once a scholarship has been terminated the award will not be reinstated regardless if the student is able to meet the terms of their scholarship in a future semester.

Students will have approximately 2 weeks following official notification to appeal the status of their scholarship termination.

Students with extenuating circumstances may appeal their scholarship termination by submitting a Merit Scholarship Appeal.

All students appealing must submit a written (e-mailed) appeal by the published deadline. Appeals must be based on significant extenuating circumstances that seriously affected your academic performance. Examples of possible extenuating circumstances are: serious illness, personal accident or injury of a significant nature, bereavement due to the loss of a close family member (parent, grandparent, guardian, sibling, child), victim of crime, or unforeseen circumstance out of your control.

The following is REQUIRED in order for an appeal to be reviewed. The written appeal MUST INCLUDE ALL 3 items listed below:

  1. Describe in detail the extenuating circumstances and specifically how they impacted your performance.

  2. Provide a detailed plan describing the steps you have taken, or will take, to correct the circumstances and improve your academic performance within the next 1 or 2 semesters.

  3. Provide documentation supporting the extenuating circumstance(s) listed in your appeal statement. Time frames on your documentation should support the circumstance described in your statement. Examples of supporting documentation are hospital visits/bill, obituary, letter from a University official who is familiar with your situation, letter from a physician, counselor, clergy, etc. who can verify your appeal, etc.

Deadline

Appeals should be emailed to: Scholarships@uml.edu within 2 weeks of the date of the termination notification.

The Scholarship Review Committee reserves the right to make individual decisions based on extenuating circumstance(s). If the appeal is denied or no appeal is submitted by the published deadline, the scholarship will be permanently terminated and cannot be re-appealed or reinstated.