{"id":15300,"date":"2015-07-21T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T04:08:43","slug":"satisfactory-academic-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15300","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;satisfactory academic progress&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! OSAP put me on probation last year, holding my funding for a bit until I gave them a letter explaining my unsatisfactory academic progress. I got good grades and all, but I only completed 3.5 FCE, which meant I was still &#8220;first year&#8221; which they didn&#8217;t like. Anyway, I wrote the letter and got my funding etc. Took 4.5 FCE last year and now I;m at a total of 8.0 FCE. Which I thought was enough for 3rd year but isn&#8217;t. Will they cancel my funding this year because I still didn&#8217;t progress? Ty<\/p>\n<p>wanted to add to the previous question I sent about OSAP: the only condition for the lifting of my OSAP probation, as far as I can remember, was that I had to pass all my courses, which I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>i couldn&#8217;t find any downtown campus resources on this, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/~registrar\/financial_aid\/GovAidAcReq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UTSC says<\/a> that as long as you HADa full-time course load (3.0 FCEs+ on the downtown campus) in the previous session, you&#8217;re &#8220;making progress towards your degree.&#8221; if you took (and passed) 4.5 FCEs last year, that definitely qualifies you.<\/p>\n<p><em>however<\/em>, if they had an issue with you not progressing to the next year level in the past, i&#8217;m not sure that wouldn&#8217;t happen again. i can&#8217;t find any evidence that it would, but i wouldn&#8217;t want to risk it.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d highly recommend you have a chat with a financial advisor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/newstudents\/nextsteps\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your college\/faculty registrar&#8217;s office<\/a>. they&#8217;ll know for sure, and if they think there&#8217;s a chance you could get into trouble again, they could counsel you on what to do to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>all the best,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! OSAP put me on probation last year, holding my funding for a bit until I gave them a letter explaining my unsatisfactory academic progress. I got good grades and all, but I only completed 3.5 FCE, which meant I was still &#8220;first year&#8221; which they didn&#8217;t like. Anyway, I wrote the letter and got my funding etc. Took 4.5 FCE last year and now I;m at a total of 8.0 FCE. Which I thought was enough for 3rd year but isn&#8217;t. Will they cancel my funding this year because I still didn&#8217;t progress? Ty wanted to add to the previous question I sent about OSAP: the only condition for the lifting of my OSAP probation, as far as I can remember, was that I had to pass all my courses, which I did. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i couldn&#8217;t find any downtown campus resources on this, but UTSC says that as long as you HADa full-time course load (3.0 FCEs+ on the downtown campus) in the previous session, you&#8217;re &#8220;making progress towards your degree.&#8221; if you took (and passed) 4.5 FCEs last year, that definitely qualifies you. however, if they had an issue with you not progressing to the next year level in the past, i&#8217;m not sure that wouldn&#8217;t happen again. i can&#8217;t find any evidence that it would, but i wouldn&#8217;t want to risk it. i&#8217;d highly recommend you have a chat with a financial advisor at your college\/faculty registrar&#8217;s office. they&#8217;ll know for sure, and if they think there&#8217;s a chance you could get into trouble again, they could counsel you on what to do to avoid it. all the best, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hey! 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