Enrollment Criteria

Scholarships usually require full-time enrollment. If you receive a private scholarship that does not require full-time enrollment, we must receive written authorization from the donor before disbursement will occur. Grants require full-time enrollment, or, in some cases, will be adjusted by a prorated amount on less than full-time enrollment. Your Pell Grant, for instance, will be adjusted according to your enrollment status, e.g., 75 percent of the full award if you enroll three-quarter time or 50 percent if you enroll half-time. However, you must have full-time status to receive a Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant or a University Partnership Grant. You must be registered at least half time to be eligible for Ford Federal Direct student loans. Federal Perkins Loans and University Trust Fund Loans require full-time enrollment.

Before your financial aid funds can be paid to your student account you must meet the minimum enrollment status required by the funds you have accepted. You must also meet any criteria specific to the aid program(s) from which you accept aid. Go to the program descriptions detailed in “Types of Aid Programs.” Exceptions to the full-time enrollment requirement can be made for some aid programs (excluding Federal Pell and Minnesota State grants) if you are an undergraduate in your final term of study. You must have your academic advisor provide written verification that the credits for which you are registered will fulfill the graduate requirements.

OSF will verify your upcoming semester’s initial enrollment approximately two weeks prior to the start of the term. Your financial aid awards will be adjusted to reflect your actual enrollment on that date so we can disburse your financial aid to your student account at the earliest opportunity. After your initial disbursement each semester, your enrollment will be verified for the second and final time each term at the end of the cancel/add period. Final adjustments to your term’s aid are made; additional aid is paid if you now qualify because of increased credits or, if you reduced credits, your student account will be billed back any aid funds for which you no longer qualify.

PLEASE NOTE: Audited course work and extended term online telecommunications and correspondence courses are not eligible for financial aid.