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Financial Aid

  • Students must declare a major to be eligible for financial aid
  • If you are not eligible for financial aid, you must pay your own fees by the due date or your schedule will be dropped. 
  • To be eligible for financial aid while attending Griffin Technical College, you must hold GTC’s institutional Student Academic Progress (SAP) policy which is a cumulative 2.00 GPA and a cumulative 67% completion ratio of all classes attempted (prior and current) at GTC.  If SAP is not met, GTC will allow you two probationary quarters to still receive financial aid to work toward meeting the institutional SAP policy.  At the end of the two probationary quarters, should you still not meet the SAP policy, you will then be placed on Financial Aid Suspension and will not be eligible for financial aid until you again meet the institutional SAP policy.

HOPE
For Georgia residents to be eligible for HOPE, they must meet the following:  Georgia’s 12-month residency requirement; Not having defaulted or be in default on a Federal Student Loan; All males must be registered with the Selective Service, unless born before 1960 or entered into the U.S. after their 26th birthday. (Proof may be required for any of these HOPE requirements) (www.GAcollege411.org)

If  deemed eligible for the HOPE Grant or HOPE Scholarship, HOPE will pay all tuition and fees for a student, each quarter of attendance, except for a $35.00 Technology fee.

HOPE Grant

  • Covers Diploma and Certificate programs only
  • Has a CAP of 95 attempted quarter hours

HOPE  Scholarship

  • Covers degree programs only
  • Has a CAP of 190 attempted hours (does include any alnd all of the 95 quarter hours previously attempted under the HOPE Grant)
  • Must have a 3.00 GPA at each checkpoint (45, 90, 135 quarter hours and at the end of each Spring quarter).

Federal PELL Grant 
The Federal Pell Grant must be renewed EVERY year.  It is recommended that once a student and/or/his/her parents have completed their Federal tax returns in February for the previous year, the student should complete the PELL Grant application using the most recent Federal tax returns (www.fafsa.ed.gov)