Financial Aid Enrollment Status and Aid Eligibility

Financial Aid eligibility and awards are based on the student's financial aid enrollment status on the census date for the term.   The financial aid enrollment status includes only aid-eligible credits.  Please note the following:

• Only coursework which is either required as a regular part of the program of study or fulfills an elective in the program of study is aid-eligible and can be included in the financial aid enrollment status.
• Only a pre-requisite course that is ALSO a required course for the program of study is aid-eligible.
• Up to 30 attempted credits of required developmental coursework is aid-eligible and can be included in the enrollment status.
• A passed course can be repeated one time and still be included in the financial aid enrollment status. Subsequent repeats of a course that has been passed cannot be included for aid purposes.
• Dropped courses and courses that the student never attended (NA grades) are not aid eligible and cannot be included in the financial aid enrollment status.

Please refer to our website at www.howardcc.edu/financialaid for more information on the financial aid enrollment status and aid eligibility.