hiya aska,<\/p>\n
i\u2019m doing my undergrad in A&S and i rely solely on OSAP. i enrolled at U of\u00a0T in 2010\u2026a brief explanation: took a nose-dive during my 2nd year and\u00a0failed 2 courses which dropped me below 60% course load, i\u2019m still chugging\u00a0away thanks to getting registered with Accessibility Services, but it\u2019s\u00a0slow going.\u00a0i was on probation for a while, i forget how long but i remember having to\u00a0write maybe 2 letters about how i\u2019m going to make sure i succeed\u00a0academically. if i pass everything this semester i will be 1.5 credits\u00a0short of graduating. my gpa is 2.15ish now. i never found out if i was put\u00a0on probation because i failed the 2 courses or because my courseload was\u00a0too low.<\/p>\n
this semester is a trainwreck because of reasons. if i fail any courses,\u00a0will OSAP cut me off? suspend me? how does OSAP look upon late withdrawals\u00a0and NCR course grades?<\/p>\n
thanks for listening to my sob story<\/p>\n
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hey there,<\/p>\n
sorry for the absurdly\u00a0late response. aska\u2019s been a bit flooded with questions lately and the catch-up process is a slow one, but we\u2019ll get there eventually. i hope you\u2019ve sought help elsewhere in the meantime, though.<\/p>\n
OSAP is always a tricky thing to talk about. it has a million nuances, depending on details that i may or may not know about you. regardless of what i say today, it\u2019s a good rule of thumb to keep in close contact with your registrar\u2019s office whenever you\u2019re dealing with OSAP.<\/p>\n
OSAP is not in the business of combing through transcripts and determining academic standing; that\u2019s the university\u2019s job. all that OSAP cares about, basically, is that you are in a full-time course load.<\/p>\n
if you are on full-time OSAP and you don\u2019t achieve at least 3.0 credits in the Fall\/Winter term (because you failed some courses or LWD\u2019d or whatever), you will be required to begin paying back your OSAP 6 months<\/strong> after the date that\u00a0OSAP deems you to have dropped to part-time (likely the end of the Fall\/Winter session). if you don\u2019t have 6 months between now and the next time you\u2019re in a full-time course load, then you\u2019re in luck. otherwise, you\u2019d have to make payments monthly until the next time that you\u2019re in a full-time course load again.<\/p>\n you will also likely be put on OSAP probation again, in which case you\u2019d have to write another letter explaining why you weren\u2019t able to make satisfactory progress.<\/p>\n however, if you were on OSAP probation last<\/em> year and you don\u2019t achieve at least 3.0 credits this year, you may be restricted from receiving OSAP for one calendar year (see #19<\/a>).<\/p>\n