Are grades or GPA considered in determining eligibility for financial aid?
While your grades do not play a major role in determining eligibility for financial aid, academic criteria does come into play. First of all, students must meet the institution’s admission criteria which typically includes some consideration of grades or other measures of academic achievement or potential. Financial aid recipients are required to make satisfactory academic progress toward their degree or credential objective. Institutions establish standards of satisfactory academic progress and monitor the progress of aid recipients. Institutional standards include consideration of the number of units students enroll in and satisfactorily complete each year, as well as the total number of units a student completes over the entire academic program. According to federal regulations, aid recipients must have a C average or a 2.0 GPA at the end of their second year.
While your grades do not play a major role in determining eligibility for financial aid, academic criteria do come into play. Students must meet the institution’s admission criteria that typically include some consideration of grades or other measures of academic achievement or potential. Cal Grant A requires you to have a minimum 3.0 GPA from high school, and Cal Grant B requires that you have a minimum 2.0 GPA from high school.
