1) Students whose ACT scores are low enough place into Basic Writing, Basic Math, and / or Basic Reading. Students who are in two or more of the above also take a three-credit Learning Skills course. If they're in all three, that's full-time status right there.
2) None of these classes are considered "college level," so they do not count for credit toward graduation. For this reason, grades in these classes do not factor into the student's GPA.
3) Therefore, it is pretty much impossible for a student who never actually manages to PASS any of these classes to flunk out of college, or even to end up on academic probation.
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Surely there are provisions for cutting off their financial aid if they don't make academic progress? Or have a limited number of times they can re-take basic courses before getting the boot?
If so, there is something seriously wrong there.
They can re-take the course indefinitely. I have no idea whether there are any financial aid implications, but in general, my university is really not good at giving students the boot.
Ugh, what a nightmare.
On the upside, my capcha is "iocand" which is close enough to "iocaine" to remind me of *The Princess Bride* to make me laugh about this.
Yes, there must be provisions for cutting off financial if they don't make any progress in these basic courses. Surely they can't retake them ad infinitum? This doesn't make sense either for their own development and their own debt load.
Sis is right: financial aid wields the ax. Your school has some kind of satisfactory academic progress policy, and if they don't make progress, they can't keep getting aid. For precisely the reason you suggest.... (And I've been in a place that got audited by the Dept of Ed, so...
Re financial aid: Yes, it appears that there is a "satisfactory progress" policy. The problem is, though, that "satisfactory progress" is defined like this:
A) A GPA of at least 2.0. But if the only credit-bearing courses you take, ever, are Intro to College Life and maybe Fitness Walking or similar, you're going to maintain a 2.0 even if you keep flunking Basic Everything -- or rather, because you keep flunking Basic Everything.
B) Successful completion of 67% of credit hours attempted. This might snag them, eventually -- only I'm not sure that Basic Everything "counts" for this purpose either, since again, these aren't considered "real" college courses. (The Financial Aid website is not very forthcoming about this.)
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