A new state law requires students with Bright Futures scholarships to repay their award money if they withdraw from a class after the drop and add period – typically about a week into the four-month semester.
IF YOU DROP or Withdraw from Classes AFTER YOUR Bright Futures IS DISBURSED. Your Bright Futures will be billed for the classes dropped or withdrawn after the initial drop/add period. The amount owed is based off the number of credits dropped for the term. Classes dropped through the Academic Regulations Committee (ARC) Petition process do not exempt a student from …
Apr 30, 2020 · If you are a Bright Futures scholarship recipient and you withdraw from one or more classes, our office is required to return the Bright Futures funding you received for that term to the Florida Department of Education. Per state statute, you must repay the Bright Futures funding you received for the withdrawn course (s) to the University. The Florida Department of …
Jan 04, 2010 · A new state law requires students with Bright Futures scholarships to repay their award money if they withdraw from a class after the drop and add period – typically about a week into the four-month semester.
Paying Back Bright Futures Hi, I dropped a course after the add/drop period and I am a recipient of the Bright Futures Scholarship. I dropped the course before October 30th, and now it's November 22nd and the amount I owe back (for dropping the …
Renewal Requirements | Florida Academic Scholars Award |
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Minimum Cumulative GPA (unrounded & unweighted) | 3.0* |
Minimum Hours Required Per Term, if funded Full Time (12+ hours) | 12 semester earned hours |
Minimum Hours Required Per Term, if funded Three-quarter Time (9-11 hours) | 9 semester earned hours |
Bright Futures Scholarship Rates At FSU | |
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Bright Futures Medallion Scholarship | $160.16/credit hour |
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A new state law requires students with Bright Futures scholarships to repay their award money if they withdraw from a class after the drop and add period – typically about a week into the four-month semester.
Florida Atlantic University’s dropped courses fell 22 percent for all students. FIU’s overall decline was 13 percent.
Fewer than half the students graduate within six years at many South Florida colleges and universities, including FAU and Florida International University. But if the number of dropped classes is any indication, schools could improve.
The Bright Futures change may not be the only factor affecting the numbers. Students who don’t have the scholarship have always had to pay for classes they dropped. But they may be more reluctant to do that during the recession, seeing it as a waste of money.
Dropping classes may jeopardize future student aid eligibility, including scholarships & student loans.
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If you received a Federal Direct Stafford Loan or Federal Perkins Loan and drop below half-time, the grace period prior to repayment will begin (nine-months for Perkins and USF Loans, six-mont hs for Federal Direct Stafford Loans).
You must request institutional refunds from the corresponding USF department according to their established policy/procedures/contract, etc.
It is your responsibility to pay the balance of your tuition & fees even if you are ineligible for aid after dropping below half-time enrollment.
You should also not expect to receive any institutional refund until all non-federal aid programs that require a repayment (e.g. Bright Futures, etc.) for totally withdrawn students until those aid programs are also repaid in full.
You should not expect to receive any institutional refund until all federal student aid programs are repaid in full for the entire amount paid to you that term. This includes retroactive non-fee liable drops approved by the University Registrar when those hours were included in your enrollment status to initially disbursed federal student aid grant funds (e.g. Pell, SEOG, etc.).
As a result, you may be ineligible for all or a portion of your financial aid, depending on the number of hours that you are dropping and the number of hours remaining. This action may affect all types of aid awarded.
Students who are reported to have stopped attending all of their classes prior to the 60% point of the semester or whose professors report that they began attendance but cannot determine if the student stopped before the 60% point will be identified as students who “unofficially withdrew” from classes. Within 30 days, we are required to perform the Return to Title IV calculation and return funds to the federal programs resulting in the student owing a balance to the University.
Unofficial Withdrawals (Stop Attending All Classes) Federal law requires that UCF evaluate federal aid recipients who fail to earn any credit during a semester, in order to determine if the student stopped attending classes on or before the 60% point in the semester.
If you withdraw from all your classes on or before the 60% point in time of the semester, which is calculated using calendar days, a portion of the total federal aid funds awarded must be returned, according to the provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998. The return of these funds will result in the student owing a balance to the University and/or the Federal Government. Please review the Treatment of Federal Aid When a Student Withdraws for details of this policy.
Withdrawn and medically withdrawn classes do not count as completed hours and may affect your Satisfactory Academic Progress and renewal requirements for individual aid programs.
Bright Futures awards will be reduced for withdrawn classes, including Medical Withdrawal. Please visit Bright Futures Awards for more details.
If failing the class brought you below the credit requirement you lose it. You can have a chance to appeal it however.
Yeah you are fine, only an F is failing for them. Just beaware of your GPA requirement. If you fall below 2.75 then you lose it after a year.
If you officially withdraw or stop attending all courses, you may be required to repay all or part of the financial aid disbursed to you for the term in which you withdraw. Students receiving federal funds may be required to repay aid determined to be “unearned.”.
That is, if you completed 30% of the term in which you withdrew, you have earned 30% of the federal aid you received. Once you have completed 60% of the term, you are considered to have earned all of your aid.
For grants, the law provides that you return 50% of any grant you receive requiring repayment. Any amount you do have to return is a grant overpayment, and you must arrange with UF or the U.S. Department of Education to return the funds.