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.