Can you take a semester off in college without your financial aid loans coming in?
Question by Lauren: Can you take a semester off in college without your financial aid loans coming in?
I’m moving to California from Michigan and I don’t know what school I want to transfer to yet. It’s getting late for financial aid as well as applications. Am I allowed to take a semester off to get on my feet in a new state and decide where I want to go to school? Or will my loans start coming in when the new semester starts and I haven’t enrolled anywhere? Thanks.
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Answer by CaliGirl
well since you aren’t registered at any other school then you probably wouldn’t get your financial aid unless you haven’t officially dropped from which ever school you were attending in Michigan.
you should contact where ever you get your financial aid from and talk to them about it and make sure they know what’s going on because you dont want to get thing messed up or make them thing your trying to ‘pull a fast one’ or whatever then they dont give your your money when you need it.
p.s. welcome to cali!
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You have to be enrolled in six credit hours to receive loans. If you are not enrolled you will not receive the funds for that semester. If you are asking if your loans will go into repayment, that depends. Loans go into repayment 6 months after you are enrolled less than half time. So if you take the fall semester off (and did not attend school the summer i.e you were off Summer of 09 and Fall of 09), your loans will begin to go into repayment in November or December until you enroll in school for at least 6 credit hours