Glossary/Repeat coursework

Repeat coursework

Repeat coursework is a course that a student takes again after previously receiving a grade or withdrawing.

How it works

The registrar flags the course as a repeat. The aid office determines whether the prior attempt was passed or failed and whether the current attempt may be included in the enrollment-intensity calculation. If the repeat is aid-eligible, the credits count toward full-time or part-time status for that term. All attempts remain in the cumulative attempted-credit total for SAP.

Example: a student passed a 3-credit course with a D and repeats it to earn a higher grade. The repeat can be included in enrollment status for aid one time. Both the original and the repeated credits count as attempted for pace. A second repeat of the same passed course cannot be included in the aid enrollment status.

How it differs

An incomplete that is later finished is not a repeat. Auditing a course does not generate aid-eligible credits. Grade replacement is an academic-transcript policy; it does not remove the earlier attempt from the SAP attempted-credit count.

Common errors

Including multiple repeats of a passed course in the enrollment status for aid. Assuming a grade-replacement policy erases the earlier attempt for maximum-timeframe purposes. Treating every repeat as automatically aid-eligible.

References

  1. 1. Federal Student Aid repeat courseworkAid eligibility for repeats
  2. 2. 34 CFR 668.2 repeated coursesTreatment in enrollment status

Repeat coursework is a course that a student takes again after previously receiving a grade or withdrawing.

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