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Hi! I’m hoping someone familiar with StudentAid BC can help because I’m really confused about what my options are.

Basically:

• I originally registered in 5 courses for Fall 2026 and dropped 2, leaving me with 3 courses/9 credits. I thought I was still full-time for StudentAid.
• One of those courses is a course I previously took at another BC college and got a D in. I received transfer credit, but the D didn’t satisfy what I needed for my program, so I still had to retake it.
• This is my first time repeating this specific course.
• I didn’t realize a repeat course might not count toward the 9-credit minimum for StudentAid.
• So even though I’m registered in 9 credits, I’m assuming only 6 credits are being counted for StudentAid purposes.
• On October 2, my school reported a “Scholastic standing change/Withdrawal” effective September 8 to StudentAid.
  • I’m still registered in and attending all 3 courses and never actually withdrew from school.
• StudentAid has now reassessed me as having only 1 funded week, and some of the funding I already received is showing as an overaward.
• I completely see where the issue likely came from now.
  • I REALLY wish I had kept 4 classes because then I would still have had 9 eligible credits even without the repeat. I genuinely just didn’t know.
• I had actually repeated another course under similar circumstances before without a StudentAid issue, but I now realize I had 4 courses that semester, so I still had enough eligible credits.
• I’ve contacted my university’s Financial Aid office and am waiting for them to confirm that the repeat course is actually what caused this.

I found StudentAid BC's Repeat Course Appeal, and it sounds like it may apply when you passed a course but didn’t get the grade required to progress in your program. I’m not repeating this just to improve my GPA - I actually need to retake it because the D wasn’t sufficient for my program requirement.

Has anyone dealt with this or successfully appealed something similar? What did you have to provide for the appeal, and if it was approved, did they count the repeat toward your full-time course load?

Also, is there anything else I can realistically do at this point? Could adding another course late with special permission potentially help?

My biggest concern is next semester. I rely on StudentAid for school, and if this turns into an overaward of several thousand dollars, I’m worried about whether I’ll still be able to receive full funding next semester. I haven’t been given an actual overaward amount yet, so I don’t know what it will be.

I know I made a mistake by dropping to 3 courses without understanding the repeat-course rule. I’m just trying to figure out what I can do now, whether an appeal is worth trying, and how this could affect my next StudentAid application.

Any advice/experiences would be really appreciated because the information online is confusing 😭

hi all

just wondering whether or not two W’s on my transcript will look really bad when i try to transfer to sfu next year? the courses i’m thinking of dropping are not university transferable and are part of a certificate program i’m no longer doing. since they’re not necessary for my degree and not even a thing at sfu, will it still look bad or not matter as much ?

TYIA!

Erm basically what the title says. I'm a prospective student looking to do nursing at Douglas, however I was kind of thinking of applying to Academics Foundations for Pysch Nursing instead since their Winter intake is open. I was wondering if you could do all the pre reqs (and the ones needed for general nursing and apply to General Nursing once you're done?)

I'm sorry if this sounds really stupid, it should be obvious in hindsight but I just needed reassurance. My friends who are doing pre-nursing are all saying different things. One is saying I can only go into Pysch Nursing if I do it's academic foundations program while the other one says I can apply for General Nursing as well.

Also how is Pysch Nursing and the outlook for those of you who are doing it? Really sorry and thank you.

I started my period today and normally I carry pads in my bag but obviously the day it finally comes, I don’t have any products with me. I go to the bathroom on the 3rd floor and try to get a menstrual product but it’s not refilled. Then I go to the 4th floor and it’s the same problem. At that point my class break was already done and there was no point in going all the way downstairs.

Are the Douglas New West bathrooms always like this? I’ve seen a post on here a while ago about the same issue and I guess it hasn’t been fixed.

I just hope the next person who forgets their tampon and pad are accommodated to especially when we pay the DSU and their policies are not competed to be available for people who need them.

Hi! Are the nursing courses for the first semester already pre-selected, or do we have to register for them ourselves? I’m a little confused about how the course registration works.