Impact on Aid of Dropping, Withdrawing, or Never Attending Class

Financial aid awards are based on the student’s enrollment status as of the financial aid census date each semester. When that status changes, a student’s financial aid awards may need to be adjusted. Courses added or withdrawn from after the census date typically do not result in a change in the student’s financial aid eligibility. However, courses that a student never attended will have an NA grade reported by the instructor, and those courses cannot be included in the financial aid enrollment status. Classes that are dropped after census will be evaluated individually to determine whether they can be included when determining aid eligibility. Please refer to our website at www.howardcc.edu/financialaid for more information about the impact of dropping, withdrawing, or never attending a class you registered for.

Students who withdraw from all classes in a term will be subject to a review of their financial aid awards using the Federal Return of Title IV Funds (R2T4) calculation, and may owe a balance to the college. Students who stop attending all of their classes, even if they do not officially withdraw from those classes, will also be subject to a Return of Title IV Funds (R2T4) calculation. Students who unofficially withdraw may owe a balance to the college and will have F-grades that impact their GPA since they did not officially withdraw. Please refer to the Return of Title IV Funds policy later in this section.