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Jacey Cook

"I am currently enrolled in graduate school, doing both therapy and diagnostic testing with a multitude of age ranges. In therapy, I work with children, adolescents, adults and also provide marriage counseling, parent guidance and family therapy. Diagnostic testing gives me an opportunity to work with a wide range of referral questions such as learning difficulties, attention difficulties, gastric bypass evaluations, intellectual and personality measures. Lake Superior State University gave me a strong background in statistics and other courses that provided me with the skills to success and prepared me for graduate school."

Jacey Cook
Psychology Alum,
Graduate Student
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Office of Financial Aid

Financial Aid Appeal Process

Appeals for reinstatement of financial aid will be handled by two University Committees.

Students suspended for qualitative reasons (GPA) and have been academically dismissed, will have to appeal to the Scholastic Standards Committee according to the instructions at www.lssu.edu/scheduling/pdf/AcademicStandingTable

Students suspended for quantitative reasons (credits earned), please follow the process outlined below.  If you were suspended for multiple reasons, you must first appeal your academic dismissal and be granted readmission before appealing for financial aid reinstatement.

  1. Your full-name, student identification number and current e-mail address.  Please also list your degree and major as well as your current academic advisor.
  2. A brief typewritten explanation of the extenuating circumstances) that caused you to fall below the minimum standard for continuation of financial aid.  If you have previously submitted a financial aid appeal, indicate when, why and the outcome.
  3. If extenuating circumstance is medically related (physical or psychological), please submit a written note, signed and dated , from the attending health care personnel indicating the nature of your condition and its impact on your course studies.
  4. An unofficial copy of you LSSU transcript.
  5. Eight copies of your appeal letter and supporting documentation.
  6. Send your quantitative appeal letter to:

    Lake Superior State University
    ATTN: Karen Johnston, Financial Aid Committee Chair
    Library 107
    650 W Easterday Avenue
    Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783

NOTE:  If you are appealing for an extension of financial aid lost due to the federally mandated 150% rule, you must include a SIGNED DEGREE AUDIT from your advisor or the Registrar’s Office along with your anticipated graduation date clearly stated in your appeal.  To be considered, the eight copies of you written appeal along with your supporting documentation must be received by the Financial Aid Committee Chair no later than the first day of classes of the semester for which financial aid reinstatement is being sought.  To ensure that your appeal is acted on prior toe the end of the six-day ad/drop period, it is highly recommended that you submit your appeal well in advance of the semester start.

Students may be eligible for an alternative loan during the time that their other aid is suspended.  The Financial Aid Director reviews alternative loans for suspended students on an individual bases one semester at a time (see Alternative Loan Link below).

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