Full-time Enrollment Requirement
To receive certain state financial aid awards, a student must be enrolled at least full time in degree pursuant courses, which are courses required for completion of the student’s academic program.
Appeal to Waive Full-Time Enrollment Requirement
Because students are encouraged to take college courses and AP courses while in high school, many students enter college with college credits and may find it impossible to take enough college credits toward their degree programs to be full time within a term.
The state financial aid programs requiring full-time enrollment are WV Promise Scholarship; West Virginia Higher Education Grant; WV STEM Scholarship; and Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars program. Some programs also require completing a set number of credits to renew.
If there are not enough college courses offered during a term toward your degree program to be full time, you may appeal to have the full-time requirement to receive an award waived and the credit hour renewal criterion waived for one term for the above listed programs.
Review the How To Appeal section below before making your request.
If you are in your final year of WV Promise Scholarship eligibility, you are not required to enroll full time to receive the award and would not need to complete this appeal unless you are eligible for one or more of the other programs.
Spring 2026
Fall 2025
How to Appeal
- Complete Request to Appeal by clicking button above. Only complete the highlighted fields. Once all required fields are complete, click Finish. Close the browser after submission; you do not need to log into altaFlow.
- The appeal will first be reviewed by your institution’s financial aid office and your academic advisor then our office. It may take several weeks for your appeal to be fully processed once it is submitted.
- Notification of appeal decision will be sent to you from wvcolleges (noreply@altaflow.com) for each state aid program selected on the appeal form.
Your award amount may require adjustment based on your tuition and mandatory fee charges and/or enrollment. Adjustments are required as follows:
- WV Higher Education Grant will be pro-rated based on your enrollment status and financial need as determined by your institution’s financial aid office up to $1,275 for a student attending three-quarters time, $850 for half time, or $425 for less than half time per term for the 2025-26 academic year.
- WV Promise Scholarship will pay toward tuition and mandatory fees up to $2,750 per term for the 2025-26 academic year.
- WV STEM Scholarship will be prorated to up to $1,125 for a student attending three-quarters time, $750 for half time, or $375 for less than half time per term.
- Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars awards will be prorated to up to $3,750 for a student attending three-quarters time, $2,500, or $1,250 for less than half time per term.
The award will count as a semester of utilization toward the maximum number of available semesters.
For the program(s) you are requesting a waiver, you must have been awarded, be in good academic standing and, if the award is a renewal, be meeting renewal requirements, to be considered. If your enrollment changes to full time or your program eligibility status changes, your approval will automatically be rescinded.
You will not be eligible for the above-listed state financial aid program(s). However, you may be able to adjust your registration to enroll in full-time, degree pursuant courses and keep the award(s). You should work with the financial aid office and/or academic advisor at your institution.
Please contact our office at 304-558-4618 or wvfinancialaid@wvhepc.edu or your institution’s financial aid office if you have questions.