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Eligible Student
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To be eligible to receive financial aid you must:
- Be admitted to Cal State San Marcos by our Admissions office for the semester
in which your aid is based. If you are a post-baccalaureate student you
must also be admitted to a program by the appropriate college.
- If applying to the Teaching Credential or Master’s program you have to both:
- Be accepted by the department into the specific program for which you
applied.
- Be admitted to the University through the Admissions Office
- Have a high school diploma or GED.
- Have not defaulted on a student loan, or owe a repayment on a federal grant.
- Be receiving federal financial aid at Cal State San Marcos only.
- Be maintaining satisfactory academic progress as outlined in the Financial
Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy in this handbook.
Extended Studies/Open University
If a student has not been admitted to Cal State San Marcos for the semester for
which (s)he is applying for aid, (s)he is not eligible to receive financial aid
at Cal State San Marcos.
Teaching Credential Candidates
Teaching credential students are eligible to apply for student aid.
 Students in
the credential program are not considered graduate students for financial aid
purposes. However, since most credential students have completed a Bachelor’s
degree, they are no longer eligible for certain grant aid (FSEOG, EOP). Teaching
credential students may, if eligible, receive a federal Pell Grant; and loan
limits are based on undergraduate grade levels. It also means that if on
questions 48-54 of the FAFSA you answered yes ONLY to the question #49 regarding
working on a Master’s or Doctoral program (the credential is neither), this was
wrong. Therefore, you needed to have answered “no” and provided parental
information. If you incorrectly answered this question and did not provide
parental information on the FAFSA (a very common mistake), it will need to be
corrected.
Your award is based on the assumption that you have or will be admitted to
the teaching credential program by the College of Education. If you are not
admitted to one of the credential programs, you are not eligible for aid.
Prerequisites for Teaching
Credential Candidates
If you are required to take prerequisites to gain admission to the program, to
be eligible for aid you must meet one of the following criteria:
Registered in at least 6 units of required prerequisites to receive aid. This
includes, ED 350, ED 364, ED 500 ED 422, ED 571 or PE201. ED 501 is a
prerequisite ONLY
for the concurrent learning handicapped credential.
Taking courses required to complete the MSAT waiver, in which case, you must
provide
our office with a copy of the MSAT waiver worksheet completed by an advisor in
the
Cal State San Marcos College of Arts and Sciences.
AND
You must be admitted to Cal State San Marcos as a regular student for the
semester in which you are taking the courses. Extended Studies or Open
University students are not eligible for aid.
Note: You cannot receive aid for prerequisite coursework for more than one year
or two semesters.
Once the credential admission lists are made public, the Cal State San Marcos
Financial Aid and Scholarship Office attempts to contact students who have not
been admitted and who appear to be awarded based on the assumption of being in
the credential program, to ascertain their degree objective. However if we fail
to notify you, this handbook serves the same purpose and you should notify us if
you plan to take prerequisites, or defer your enrollment in the credential
program.
Prerequisites for
Master’s Candidates
If you
are required to take prerequisite coursework to gain admission to a Master’s
program, you may be eligible for aid. To be aid eligible you must be admitted
to the university as an Undeclared post-baccalaureate and be enrolled in
at least 6 units of coursework required for admission to your program. You will
be required to submit a letter from the appropriate college which lists the
specific courses required for admission into the Master’s program. A maximum of
two semesters or one year is allowable for prerequisite coursework. While in
prerequisite coursework you will be subject to senior level undergraduate loan
limits.
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