The purpose of the Minimum Academic Requirements for Financial Aid Policy is to ensure that financial aid recipients are attending College of DuPage to receive an education and not to only secure financial aid dollars.
Students who fail to demonstrate satisfactory progress toward the completion of their education (i.e., not attending classes, deferring grades, withdrawing from classes or failing classes) will become ineligible to receive financial aid. Students must be in an eligible degree program, certificate program or transfer curriculum to receive financial aid at College of DuPage.
Federal regulations require that the Minimum Academic Requirements for Financial Aid be applied to a student's academic performance regardless of whether or not financial aid has previously been received. When applying these standards, the student's full academic record at College of DuPage and any credit hours transferred to the college are taken into consideration.
Students who have previously attended College of DuPage but have not received financial aid will have their academic progress reviewed before receiving aid for the first time. The review will determine if they are eligible to receive financial aid and/or if they should be placed on Financial Aid Discontinuance.