Repeated courses will count toward determination of enrollment status and attempted credit hours. Financial aid may be used for repeated courses once for classes in which a student previously earned credit and for courses that need to be repeated for which credit has not been earned. When repeating a course, the most recent grade earned is the "grade of record" for computing the grade point average. Please see MCCC's repeating a course procedure 3.12a for further details. MCCC Policies Page
Note: While MCCC has an academic forgiveness policy (Academic Forgiveness Policy, Policy 3.31) that allows students to petition to have his/her GPA recalculated with failing E grades forgiven based on specific eligibility criteria, the Federal Student Aid Program regulations make no provision for the concept of academic forgiveness. Therefore, courses that have been excluded from the student’s MCCC GPA calculation on the academic transcript based on the institution’s academic forgiveness policy may not be excluded from the GPA calculation required for monitoring SAP for financial aid eligibility.
Students may receive federal financial aid to pay for a course that the student is repeating if the student has not previously passed the course. However, a student may only receive federal financial aid for one repetition of a course that the student passed previously. Note: If the student passed the course and then subsequently failed it, the student cannot receive financial aid for the course for a third time.
Students who are repeating courses should contact the Financial Aid Office if they have questions about whether those credits will be counted toward financial aid eligibility.