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FINANCIAL AID DePauw University
mail P.O. Box 37
Greencastle, IN
46135-0037
Work(800) 447-2495(765) 658 4030
FAX:fax (765) 658-4137
Financial Aid
Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress
The federal government requires that institutions of higher education establish minimum standards of satisfactory progress toward the completion of a degree. Students who fail to meet these standards are not eligible to receive federal, state, and institutional financial aid.
Satisfactory academic progress requires full time students to have earned at least the total cumulative course credits specified below according to the number of semesters enrolled in any college program. A semester is counted as attempted even if formal withdrawal from all course work is executed after the semester begins and no course credits are received for that period of enrollment. Students must also be academically eligible to continue at DePauw.
| Semester | Cumulative Course Credits |
|---|---|
| 4 | 12 |
| 5 | 15 |
| 6 | 19 |
| 7 | 22 |
| 7 | 22 |
| 8 | 25 |
| 9 | 28 |
| 10 | 31 |
Completing a course means receiving a grade of A, B, C, D, P or S. The credit hours of a course will not count toward the minimum required hours listed above if a course is failed with a grade of F or U, or if a student withdraws from a course and receives a grade of W, audits a course and receives a grade of X, or retakes a previously completed course to improve the overall grade point average. Withdrawing from all course work after attending classes on the first day of a semester will result in a grade of W for all courses. A semester of eligibility will have been used.
Part-time students must have earned at least an equivalent prorated to the total cumulative course credits specified in the above chart. Half-time students throughout their college careers would have 20 semesters of eligibility. They must also be academically eligible to continue at DePauw. Students who switch from part-time to full-time will have their work prorated to equivalent full time semesters at the rate of one course = 1/4 semester. DePauw scholarship aid is only available to students enrolled full time with the exception of the final semester before graduation when it is adjusted.
Students who fail to earn the required number of credits will receive a warning that they are falling behind and will be placed on financial aid probation for one semester. Students will be eligible to receive financial aid during the probationary semester. If a student does not attain the appropriate number of cumulative credits by the beginning of the semester succeeding the probationary semester, he or she is no longer eligible to receive financial aid.
Academic standing concerns are addressed in the DePauw Catalog.
