Dropped Classes
Find out about financial aid eligibility and repayment if you drop a few or all of your classes.
One or More Classes Dropped
If you drop one or more classes from your schedule, it may affect your financial aid eligibility. You may need to make up classes in a subsequent semester so you do not forfeit your future financial aid eligibility.
If you receive a failing grade, incomplete, audit, or withdraw from a class, these credits cannot be counted toward your credit requirement. Further, undergraduates are required to maintain a 2.0 cumulative UNLV GPA, and graduate students are required to maintain a 3.0 cumulative UNLV GPA.
If you fail to meet the financial aid satisfactory academic progress (SAP) standards, during the fall or spring semester, you will be notified by letter of your SAP standing during spring semester and of alternatives and requirements to meet standards by the end of the summer semester. You will be placed on financial aid probation and will have the summer term to raise your overall GPA and/or complete the required deficient credits. If you do not remove the deficiencies by the end of the summer term, you will be placed on financial aid suspension and will be ineligible for any further assistance until the deficiencies are cleared.
Completely Withdraw
If you completely withdraw during any semester at UNLV, you will be subject to the Federal Return of Title IV Funds Policy as conducted by Financial Aid & Scholarships.
Federal law requires the amount of student financial assistance you have earned up to the point of withdrawal be determined by a specific calculation and the amount of assistance you have earned is determined on a pro-rata basis.
You are responsible for any assistance awarded to you for which you do not qualify or earn. You will be notified of the overpayment that you may have to repay UNLV in a timely manner. You may be ineligible for future federal and state financial assistance at UNLV or other institutions until you repay the amount, if any, that is due. For more details, please refer to the Student Financial Assistance Guidebook (PDF).
Please realize that even if you repay the overpayment amount, you are subject to the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policy, which states that if you receive financial aid for the academic year, which includes both the fall and spring semesters, you must complete the minimum number of credits for which your aid was paid:
Undergraduate Credits Required
- Full time (12+ credits per semester) = 24 per year
- Three-quarters time (9-11 credits per semester) = 18 per year
- Half time (6-8 credits per semester) = 12 per year
Graduate Credits Required
- Full time (9+ credits per semester) = 18 per year
- Half time (5-8 credits per semester) = 10 per year
If you receive a failing grade, incomplete, audit, or withdraw from a class, these credits cannot be counted toward your credit requirement. Further, undergraduates are required to maintain a 2.0 cumulative UNLV GPA, and graduate students are required to maintain a 3.0 cumulative UNLV GPA.
If you fail to meet the SAP standards during the fall or spring semester, you will be notified by letter of your SAP standing and of alternatives and requirements to meet standards by the end of the summer semester. You will be placed on financial aid probation and will have the summer term to raise your overall GPA and/or complete the required deficient credits. If you do not remove the deficiencies by the end of the summer term, you will be placed on financial aid suspension and will ineligible for any further assistance until the deficiencies are cleared.
