Students may receive financial aid during the semester they are on warning. However, they will need to follow any restrictions put in place by the Office of Academic Records, due to their probationary status. If the student fails to meet SAP at the end of their warning payment period, the student will be ineligible for financial aid.

After the warning period, any student not making Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for financial aid will receive a letter from the Financial Aid Office stating that he or she is no longer eligible to receive aid from any program. At this point, that student will have two options.

1. Attend Moody Bible Institute using the student's own financial or institutional resources and without federal financial aid, until the minimum requirements of the Institute's Federal Satisfactory Academic Progress policy have been met.
    
2. Submit an appeal stating the reason(s) why he or she has not met the minimum standards along with any supporting documentation that verifies the circumstances that affected his or her ability to meet the minimum standards. Additional information on the appeal process is provided below.

A student may submit a written statement of appeal for additional federal financial assistance if he or she feels that their special circumstances prevented him or her from meeting the minimum standards of Federal Satisfactory Academic Progress. Note that a student may only submit up to two SAP appeals during his/her academic career at Moody.

Reasons for appeal might include:

• Medical, family, or emotional difficulty
• Documented learning disability
• Other special significant or unusual circumstances (poor time management is not a significant or unusual circumstance)

Students must submit the following to the Office of Student Financial Services:

• The Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeal Request form
• A detailed statement of their reason for not meeting SAP standards
• What has changed that will enable them to meet SAP standards
• Third party documentation supporting their statement such as, but not limited to:
  • Letter from doctor, minister, counselor, or instructor
  • Hospital records
  • Death certificates

 The SAP Appeals Committee will review the request, the written statement, and any other submitted documentation to determine if the student can meet SAP standards by the end of the next semester in tandem with the Office of Academic Records. If the committee determines that the student cannot meet the required standards after completion of one semester, he or she will need to agree to an Academic Plan for Improvement as prepared by the Office of Academic Records. 

All students will be notified in writing of the Appeals Committee's decisions. Please note that if approved, only one semester of financial aid eligibility can be offered without the an approved Academic Plan for Improvement. The student must meet the minimum standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress by the end of the approved semester to retain eligibility. If the student does not improve the deficiencies within that approved semester(s), the student will no longer be eligible for financial aid. Students will continue to be ineligible for financial aid until the minimum requirements are met or an Academic Plan for Improvement is approved.

If the Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeals Committee determines that more than one semester is needed to meet SAP standards, then agreeing to an Academic Plan for Improvement is required. The student will be presented with an academic plan for meeting the minimum standards of SAP prepared by the Office of Academic Records. The academic plan is a contract that outlines a strategy towards the student's goal to "get back on track" and meet the standards of SAP while completing degree requirements. The plan will have strict conditions that the student must follow in order to retain eligibility for financial aid. Following the Academic Plan for Improvement provides additional semesters for the student to receive financial aid, provided the student is meeting all of the conditions of the plan.

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