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Summer Financial Aid

If you are applying for financial aid for summer 2008, you must complete a Summer Data form.You may complete the form electronically, you may download and print a copy of the form, or you may come by our office to obtain the form. You must submit the form to our office as soon as possible.

Applying for Financial Aid is a lengthy process. The entire process could take up to 90 days after you submit ALL documents required to complete your financial aid file. In order to have your financial aid processed in time for registration/fee payment you must submit ALL requested documents according to the priority deadlines.

• Provisionally admitted students are not eligible for federal financial aid. If your Admissions file is incomplete, you are considered a provisional student.
• You must have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to receive federal financial aid.
• If you are missing official college academic transcripts or if your financial aid file is incomplete, you are NOT eligible for financial aid deferment. You must make payment arrangements yourself on the day of registration.
• If you are determined ineligible for financial aid, you must make payment arrangements yourself on the day of registration. Your class schedule will be dropped if payment arrangements are not made on the day of registration.

Awards may be reduced or cancelled without prior notification if a student is determined ineligible for financial aid funds that he/she has already received.

YOU WILL OWE MONEY IF:

• You do not begin attendance in ALL classes (your instructor notifies the Financial Aid Office of all students who never attend classes.)
• You resign or stop attending ALL classes before completing more than 60% of the semester.

Students must begin attendance in ALL classes. Financial aid will be adjusted if a student does not begin attendance in ALL classes. If a student receives his/her financial aid check(s) and never attends any classes, the student will be responsible for immediate REPAYMENT of the FULL amount of the financial aid. If a financial aid recipient begins attendance in class, but resigns or stops attending all classes before completing more than 60% of the semester, he/she will owe money to the aid program and BPCC.

60% DATE FOR SPRING 2008:

• BPCC Students: March 26, 2008
• BPCC at NSU Students: March 19, 2008

Appeals/Extension Deadlines:

Appeals are due by 1st Thursday of each month. If your appeal is NOT turned in by the 1st Thursday, (all other documentation MUST be attached, i.e. college transcripts, documentation of situation, etc…) your appeal will NOT be submitted to the committee that month. The Appeals Committee will meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month.

Official transcripts from ALL colleges/universities previously attended must be submitted to the Admissions Office and posted to the BPCC computer system BEFORE the student will be allowed to submit a financial aid appeal.

If you have been suspended (academically) from BPCC, you are not eligible to submit a financial aid appeal.

Extension to 150% hour limit requests are also due by 1st Thursday of each month. The Extension Committee will meet on the last Friday of each month.

BPCC Teacher Institute:

A person who is a full-time Louisiana classroom teacher teaching on a temporary Louisiana teaching certificate in Louisiana in a public or private school, and who is working on permanent certification, may participate in the Teacher Institute. A teacher may take up to two 3-hour courses for $100 each ($200 maximum). Teachers must provide a copy of their T-Certificate and a letter from the school principal where they teach certifying that the course(s) they are taking at BPCC apply toward permanent certification. A new letter is required each semester! For more details, contact Dr. Stan Wilkins, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, at 678-6377. (The program does not include paraprofessionals or teacher aides.)