人口普查日期
The census date is set by the college and typically marks the end of the add/drop period. On this day, the college takes a "snapshot" of all students' enrollment which becomes the "official enrollment" that is used for both state reporting and financial aid eligibility.
At Collin, the census date for the Fall and Spring semesters is the twelfth (12th) class day. 对于夏季学期来说，这是第七个上课日。 Express classes each have a census date which varies based on the number of weeks of the specific class.
Generally, the classes you are enrolled in 并出席 (i.e., the professor has verified your attendance) 这些都在你们的正式学位计划上 as of the census date will determine the amount of financial aid grant money you will receive.
如果你被录取并参加 less than full time as of the long (16 week) semester's census date, your aid will
likely be less than what was reported to you in your initial award letter or email.
This is because students are initially awarded based on the expectation of full-time
enrollment. 然后在人口普查日期根据他们的实际入学人数进行调整。
However, if you are enrolled in Express classes, as each of those classes starts, the professor verifies your attendance, and we verify that the class is on your official degree plan, additional aid will be released up to the full time award (a student cannot get more than a full-time award in any given semester).
对于大多数经济援助基金，一般有4个招生级别：
- 全日制（12个或更多学分）
- 3/4次（9 -11学分）
- 1/2次（6 - 8学分）
- 少于1/2次（1-5学分）
然而，佩尔助学金是付费的 您注册的具体学时数（最多12小时）。 So, if you are in 10 credit hours (on your degree plan), your Pell Grant will pay out for 10/12's of the full time award. For example, if your full-time Pell Grant award for the semester is $1,000 and you're only enrolled in 10 hours, the amount you will receive is 10/12's of the $1,000 or $833.
这对你来说意味着什么？
If you increase or 减少 your enrollment level through the enrollment snapshot period/census date, your financial aid will be adjusted, as appropriate, to ensure that it is the appropriate amount given for your enrollment level.
重要提示: If you 减少 your enrollment 后 the first class day but on or before the census date, you aid will be 减少d as
well to match your enrollment (as already explained). However, you may still owe some
tuition and fee charges to the school because of the refund policy. Students in this
situation will be responsible for any balance owed the cashier's office. 查看学院的退款政策.
Additionally, since Pell eligibility begins on the first day of classes and is calculated
day to day, a student who drops all their classes during the add/drop period (and
before the census date) will be considered a Return of Title IV (R2T4). 阅读更多关于R2T4的信息。
If you increase your enrollment level 后 the census date of the long (16 week) semester，你的援助可能会根据一些因素而增加。 For example, for loans, as long as you're enrolled and attending at least 6 credit hours (on your degree plan), you will get the full amount of your loan. Adding more hours would not get you more loan money. But for Pell Grant, if you were not enrolled and attending full time at the start of the long semester and you add a class 后 census date, your Pell Grant should increase. Realize that for supplemental grants such as FSEOG and TPEG, if you were not initially awarded these when you originally registered, it is unlikely these would increase if you later added a class. This is because these grants are provided to the school in a limited amount and are awarded to all eligible students as applications are loaded into our system. Therefore, we typically have no additional monies available by the time the semester begins.
如果你在人口普查日期后减少你的注册水平，你的助学金不会减少。 This means, for example, that a student who is enrolled in 15 credits as of the census date, and who later drops a 5 credit class, will not have his/her aid reduced to the 3/4-time level. Rather, the aid will remain at the full-time level. 但是要意识到 Satisfactory Academic Progress purposes, the student will be held accountable for completing a full-time course load (meaning, this will affect a student's rate of completion). If a student has loans, however, and drops below 6 hours, any 未来 disbursements will be canceled per federal regulations.
关于人口普查日期和财政援助的一些补充说明：
如果你获得了最初的经济资助：
- Before census, it is based on the assumption that you will be enrolled full time (12 credit hours or more).
- 人口普查之后, 它是基于你的实际注册状态。