Academic Requirements

Academic Progress Requirements for Students Receiving Federal and/or Institutional Financial Aid

As an undergraduate or graduate student, your academic progress is reviewed at the end of each spring semester. You must meet the following satisfactory academic progress requirements to receive financial aid for any subsequent semester from any of the following federal or institutional aid programs:

• NYU-Poly Merit Scholarships: recipients must meet stricter requirements than those below. If you are a recipient, see your scholarship agreement for requirements.
• New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP): see the TAP web site for its satisfactory academic progress requirements

Satisfactory Academic Progress Criteria

Satisfactory academic progress has two-fold criteria. You must have a certain cumulative grade point average (GPA) and must pass a certain percentage of the total credits you have attempted.

You are considered to be making Satisfactory Academic Progress if you meet the criteria below:

Undergraduate

*If you attempt more than 183 credits, you no longer qualify for financial aid.

Graduate

* If you attempt more than 183 credits, you no longer qualify for financial aid.

Review Policies

• The cumulative grade point average is the average of all grade points received for all courses taken during all semester NYU-Poly
• The following will be considered as credits attempted and passed:
  • "A" through "D" grades
  • "P" passing with credit
  • Transfer credits accepted toward the current degree program
• The following will be considered as credits attempted but not passed:
  • "F" Grades
  • "W" Withdrawal
  • "I-F" Incomplete failure
  • "I" Incomplete
  • Credits from courses that have been repeated
• The following will not be considered as credits attempted or passed:
  • Audited courses

Repeated Courses

All courses taken at NYU-Poly are counted as attempted credits even if they have been taken again. If you fail a course and then repeat it in a subsequent semester and receive a passing grade, the credits for the first time the course was taken are counted attempted but not passed and the credits for the second time are counted as attempted and passed.

Withdrawals

All courses that you start at NYU-Poly are counted as attempted. Courses from which you withdraw count as attempted but not passed even though they do not figure into the calculation of your GPA.

Resuming Students

All course work toward a particular degree program at NYU-Poly is counted when determining whether your are making satisfactory academic progress even if you have taken time off from attending NYU-Poly.

Academic Progress Waiver Provisions

If you are not making satisfactory academic progress, you may request a one-time waiver of these requirements. Waivers are granted only in cases where you have demonstrated that the academic progress criteria were not met due to extraordinary circumstances occurring in you life, generally beyond your control.

Extraordinary circumstances include:

• Severe and long-term illness or injury making the successful completion of courses that you started a physical impossibility or hardship
• Death of an immediate family member that creates serious emotional stress or, in some cases, serious financial stress or uncertainty
• Serious emotional distress as a result of mistreatment (e.g. physical abuse or being the victim of a violent crime)

Circumstances that, generally, do not warrant an academic progress waiver include:

• Not liking the course or professor
• Being too busy at work
• Deciding after the semester starts to take some time off

An academic progress waiver may only be used once, so it’s use should be carefully considered and timed. During the waiver period, you must make up your academic progress deficiency. If a waiver is granted, you will be given a maximum of 2 semesters to achieve satisfactory academic progress.

A waiver may be granted ONLY when the following conditions are met:

• Detailed documentation must be provided to verify the extraordinary circumstances that warrant the waiver. The documentation must include an explanation of how these circumstances resulted in the loss of satisfactory academic progress and why these circumstances are not expected to cause further problems.
• Based on documentation and your academic record, there must be a reasonable expectation that all future academic requirements will be met.

Please Note: Appeals to the Academic Affairs Department to continue studies does not automatically qualify you for a Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Waiver. You must submit a separate appeal to each department.

If you believe that you have grounds for an academic progress waiver for financial aid, you should send a letter with qualifying documentation to the Financial Aid Director.