Financial aid appeal?

Because she left school due to severe health issues, it may be possible for her to get a medical withdrawal, retroactive for last term. She should talk to her advisor, and also to the office of disability services about this. Some schools will do this, others will not. It probably will not get her off financial aid suspension automatically, but it does two things:

- Changes her Fs to Ws, and

- Gives her something to talk about in her appeal letter.

When she appeals the financial aid suspension, she needs to show them why the issue will not happen again. Why she'll succeed this time, when last time, she did not. So it's not enough to talk about what happened - although that is important. She also needs to talk about what she's doing now to ensure she's okay to go back to school and be successful. So for example, if she's in therapy now, on meds, etc. - all of that should go into the letter, as proof that she's now able to do okay in school.

She also needs to be quite honest with herself, and decide if she really is ready to return to school. If what's best for her health is that she not return right now, and take more time to get well, then that's what she should do. She should only return to college when she's ready.

She may find that the school will want her to take more time off. She may find that, if she was living in student housing, housing will not want her back until more time has passed since her suicide attempt. So if any of that happens, she shouldn't be surprised. It's not that the school doesn't want her back - it's that they want to be sure she's healthy enough to return, and since the suicide attempt was less than a month ago, I doubt they'll feel she's ready. But she can try.

I would HIGHLY recommend she go talk to people in her school's disability office....

Mental Health issues (such as depression that is severe enough to trigger suicide attempt) are disabilities... and with that it is possible that they might can work out a reasonable accommodation of some sort (even if part of it is to take some time off school to get added help)

The certainly would be the best place to start... she can ask them to help her with her Fin Aid appeal letter... and they can give her advise as to what the probable outcome will be

The hard truth is that a doctor's note and attempting suicide might not be enough to overcome a fin aid suspension... it would overcome a fin aid probation... but this is more serious than just probation

the school.... is limited by what the government will allow them to over-ride... if it isn't likely that she will be reasonably successful at getting through school, then they might not be able to do anything about it

again... I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE her to go to the Disabilities Office First...... she can establish with that office the impact of any available reasonable accommodations would have on her past as well as future education.... that input will be important at this level of appeal

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