Tuition & Aid
In this section:To keep your financial aid, you must meet TSC’s Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards, even if you’re transferring from another school. This includes all your past college work, even if you didn’t get financial aid before.
Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid
- Maintain your Grade Point Average:
- 1-14 attempted credit hours: must maintain 1.75 cumulative GPA or better
- 15 or more attempted credit hours: must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA or better
- You must complete 67% of attempted classes. Attempted credit hours include all college developmental courses, withdrawals, incomplete courses, unsatisfactory (failure) grades, and transfer credit hours.
- You must complete your degree program before attempting more than 150% of the total credit hours required for the degree program.
Review of Eligibility
TSC reviews Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for financial aid at the end of every semester after grades are posted. For new transfer students, SAP is reviewed before their first semester at TSC.
If you're a transfer student, your SAP will be based on your academic history from all the schools you’ve attended.
If you’ve taken classes at TSC in the past, your SAP will include all the courses you attempted, no matter how long ago you were here
Warning Status
If you don’t meet the Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for Financial Aid, you’ll be placed on Warning status for one semester.
You’ll get an email after grades are posted if you’re placed on Warning. You can still get financial aid during this time, but you must improve your academic standing by the end of that semester to keep your aid.
Failure to restore academic standing by the end of the term will result in you being ineligible for financial aid.
Failed Status
If you do not meet the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards for two semesters in a row, you will lose your financial aid.
Student Financial Services will try to email you if you fail to meet SAP. But even if you don’t get the email, you will still be ineligible for financial aid.
Students who have their financial aid revoked will remain ineligible for financial aid until their academic history meets the established standards.
If unusual and mitigating circumstances exist, you may appeal your failure to meet the Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid. Appeals are generally not granted to transfer students.
Appeal a Failed Status
Students who have unusual and mitigating circumstances may file an appeal.
Unusual and mitigating circumstances include but are not limited to:
- Death in your immediate family (father, mother, brother, sister, or grandparent)
- Medical condition
- Hospitalization
- Documented emotional distress
- Other situations beyond your control.
All supporting documentation will be fully verified. Submitting fraudulent documentation is a crime, and students submitting fraudulent documentation will be reported to local law enforcement authorities, the Student Conduct and Community Standards Office, and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General. This may result in a fine of up to $25,000, a prison sentence, or both.
How to File an Appeal/ First Appeal
You must appeal your failure to meet the Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid within 15 days of the grading period or receipt of notification to appeal.
All situations must be fully documented: including supporting letters from counselors, doctors, ministers, and other appropriate third parties. In most cases, medical records and funeral programs will not be accepted as supporting documentation. Further details can be found within the appeal form.
The Financial Aid Satisfactory Progress Appeal Form can be found in Workday. Once logged into Workday, your SAP Appeal form should be waiting for you to complete inside your 'My Tasks' box.
The appeal decision can be viewed in Workday once your application is reviewed.
If you do not receive a decision within seven days, contact Student Financial Services at (850) 201-8399 or [email protected].
How to File a Denied Appeal/ Committee Appeal
Students whose first appeal is denied may request the Financial Aid Appeals Committee to review their status.
You must have additional supporting documents (different documents than those provided in your first appeal, which support your circumstance) and provide the documents before the committee meeting. You do not meet with the Committee. Decisions of the Financial Aid Appeal Committee will be final.
The Request for Committee Review of Financial Aid Denied Appeal form can be found in Workday.
- Log in to Workday using your student credentials
- Select the "Student Finance Hub"
- Select "TSC College Forms"
- Select "Submit a New Form"
- Scroll down to "Financial Aid"
- Complete the appeal form online and upload the required supporting documentation before submitting the form electronically
The appeal decision can be viewed in Workday once your application is reviewed. If you do not receive a decision within 7 days, Contact Student Financial Services at (850) 201-8399 or [email protected].
Approved Appeal with Probation Status
Students granted an approved appeal will be placed on Probation status for one semester.
Approved students must meet with an academic advisor and complete the "Advising for Financial Aid Clearance Form" together. The form must be returned to Student Financial Services before your aid will be awarded.
You must maintain the conditions outlined in the approved appeal to continue receiving financial aid:
- You may have no grades of AW, W, I, or F
- You must earn a term GPA for the current semester of 2.2 or better
- You must meet, in person, with an academic advisor to review your academic plan
At the end of the semester, if you meet the conditions of your appeal, then you will remain on Probation status until all three Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid have been met.
Failure to meet the Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid will cancel federal student aid eligibility.
Reinstatement of Financial Aid Eligibility
Your eligibility for federal student aid is re-established when the conditions of the approved appeal have been met, and you meet all three Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid.