Ineligible Classes for Federal Aid

Audited classes are not eligible for financial aid. If you choose to take the class for a grade instead of for audit, you will need to add the class before the add/drop deadline for it to be eligible for Pell Grant.

The first and second time you enroll in a course, the associated credit hours are counted toward federal aid eligibility (assuming you are otherwise eligible). However, if a course is taken a third time, it is ineligible for federal aid payment. This is true regardless of whether or not you received federal aid the first and/or second time you enrolled in the course.

BYU's Course Repeat Policy applies if you withdraw from the class after the semester Add/Drop Deadline, earn a grade in the class (A, B, C, D, E), or do not earn a grade (NS, I). The repeat policy does not apply to courses listed with an R-suffix, including pass/fail courses. Pass/fail courses without an R-suffix are subject to the repeat policy.

Check MyAid Dashboard to see if repeats are affecting your federal aid eligibility. Having more ‘Enrolled’ credits than ‘Pell Credit’ indicates we may not be counting credits toward your federal aid because of credit repeats.

Pell Grants and Direct Loans cannot cover courses repeated more than twice.

If you repeat a course for at least a third time, a separate “Repeat Tuition” charge will appear on My Financial Center, so federal aid won’t pay that tuition charge. In either case, students are not charged a higher tuition rate for repeating a class.

Classes added after the add/drop deadline, including internship credits, usually do not count towards your Pell Grant, but they can count towards the minimum number of credits needed for a federal loan.

Classes taken through the BYU Independent Study program are not eligible for federal aid. Online sections of classes offered through regular MyMAP registration can count as a financial aid-eligible class, as long as they meet all aid-eligible requirements listed above.

The BGS program is not eligible for federal aid. You can apply for financial assistance through BGS.

To be eligible for federal financial aid, you must be formally admitted to BYU (not just the Salt Lake Center). You may take classes at both BYU and the Salt Lake Center and combine these hours for aid purposes.

Flex GE students are not eligible for university scholarships or federal financial aid at BYU. You must be admitted to and enrolled in a degree-seeking program.