Everything You Need to Know About Your Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) at FSCJ
Let’s start with the basics:
- Financial Aid includes grants and loans from the Federal Government www.studentaid.gov.
- By filling out a FAFSA, it may tell you if you are eligible or not to receive financial aid money, but it does not guarantee that you can use it to pay for your tuition.
- SAP tells you if you can use FAFSA grants and loans to pay for your tuition. FSCJ checks your academic progress at the end of each semester (Fall, Spring, Summer) to see if you are meeting the three requirements of SAP, and to determine which SAP Status you are in.
Now, let’s dig deeper.
There are three requirements to ensure that you are “Meeting SAP” and are eligible to receive and use financial aid.
- 2.0 Cumulative GPA or higher. The total college academic performance, regardless of whether you previously received financial aid or not.
- 67% Completion Rate or higher of all college credit classes you have attempted. A course is considered "successfully completed" with a grade of A, B, C, or D in most programs. Grades such as F, W, I or U are not considered successful.
- 150% Timeframe of your program’s length. Each program has a limited number of credits you are allowed to attempt. For example, if your program of study is 60 credit hours, the maximum amount of credit hours you can attempt are 90 credit hours. (60 credit hours x 1.50 = 90 credit hours or 150% of the program credits)
Frequently Asked Questions
- Stay on track to graduate
- Keep your financial aid along the way
- Know how to get back on track
- Reduce your fear of not “Meeting SAP”
- Log in to your MyFSCJ account
- Click on the Financial Aid Tile
- Choose the Financial Aid Year
- The aid year matches the semester you are attending.
- For example: Fall 2025 would be under the 25/26 Financial Aid Year
- Click Satisfactory Academic Progress on the left side menu
Your SAP status will appear on screen.
One or more of these points below must be true
- Your cumulative GPA is below 2.0
- You have not passed at least 67% of ALL attempted credits
- You have attempted more than 150% of the maximum timeframe for your program of study
- Self-pay and successfully pass as many classes as needed to bring your GPA and Completion Rate back to “Meeting SAP”.
- Receive an approval decision for a SAP appeal.
- Apply for outside funding sources like private or personal scholarships and loans.
- If you have an assigned advisor, you can schedule an appointment with them through MyGradPlan
- If you do not have an assigned advisor, use this link to add yourself to the Virtual Phone queue for Financial Aid and speak with a Student Success Navigator