Satisfactory Academic Progress
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Building 400, Room 425
Main Campus
4000 Suisun Valley Road,
Fairfield, CA 94534
financialaid@solano.edu
707-864-7103
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
| For Federal Financial Aid & Cal Grants Full SAP Policy |
Struggling? Get Support
- Contact your instructors to let them know you need help.
- Contact the Academic Success and Tutoring Center to get FREE tutoring.
- Talk to a counselor about the challenges you’re facing.
- Contact the Financial Aid office to find out how your choices may affect your financial aid
| To be eligible for federal student aid like the Pell grant and some state programs like the Cal Grant, you have to do well in school. Satisfactory academic progress (SAP) rules measure your overall performance—if you are passing your classes and making good grades, you remain eligible for financial aid. If you aren’t making good grades or you’re dropping out of the classes you attempt, you may find yourself ineligible for any more financial aid. |
| We check your SAP at the end of each term. If you aren’t meeting conditions 1 or 2, we will put you on Warning status for the next term that you enroll with us. On warning status, you still get financial aid, but if you still aren’t meeting all of the conditions at the end of that term, you will be ineligible for aid entirely. If you don’t meet condition 3, no warning status will be available—you’ll be on Ineligible status for the next term you attend. |
| If you’re on Ineligible status, you have the ability to file a SAP appeal. SAP appeals let you explain the reasons why you didn’t do well in school. For example, you may have had a sickness or death in the family that forced you to withdraw—we’re all human and we all go through tough times. We will review your appeal and if you are approved, you can be placed on a plan that allows you to get financial aid as long as you make steady progress towards successful completion of your program. Appeals aren’t automatically approved, though, so if you are approved, make sure you get the most out of that approval by working hard to avoid getting put back on Ineligible status. Subsequent appeals are much less likely to be approved. |
*Federal rules are complex and this introduction to the topic isn’t comprehensive. There are a lot of exceptions and variations depending on your program, transfer status, and types of courses you’ve taken. All of those details can be found in the full SAP policy linked in the button above.