How to Read the TAP/APTS Charts

• Students who received their first TAP award between July 1981 and July 2006 must meet the requirements shown in the TAP/APTS Progress and Pursuit Chart A (see lines 1 and 2 for TAP; lines 1 and 3 for APTS). Before you can receive a third or later TAP award, you must accumulate a minimum number of CREDITS (see line 4, e.g., six credits before third award, 18 credits before fourth award, etc.), and you must achieve a minimum GPA (see line 5 on CHART A, e.g., 1.00 GPA before third award, 1.20 before fourth award, etc.)
• Students who received their first TAP award after July 2006 and are matriculated in a baccalaureate degree program must meet the requirements shown in the TAP/APTS PROGRESS AND PURSUIT - CHART B (line 1 and 2 for TAP; lines 1 and 3 for APTS). Before you can receive a second or later TAP award, you must accumulate a minimum number of CREDITS (see line 3, e.g., three credits before second award, 9 credits before third award, etc.), and you must achieve a minimum GPA (see line 4, e.g., 1.1 GPA before second award, 1.2 before third award, etc.).
• Students who received their first TAP award after July 2006 and are matriculated in an associate degree program must meet the requirements shown in the TAP/APTS PROGRESS AND PURSUIT - CHART C (lines 1 and 2 for TAP; lines 1 and 3 for APTS). Before you can receive a second or later TAP award, you must accumulate a minimum number of CREDITS (see line 2, e.g., three credits before second award, 9 credits before third award, etc.),and you must achieve a minimum GPA (see line 4, e.g., 0.5 GPA before second award, 0.75 before third award, etc.).

Students who receive their first TAP award prior to July 1981 and officially or unofficially withdraw from all courses during a semester in which TAP is awarded lose future TAP eligibility. Eligibility may be reinstated for a student who applies for and is granted a TAP waiver under the criteria listed below. Questions about the information contained in the progress/pursuit charts should be directed to the Office of the Registrar, Building 2A, Room 110. Students who fail to meet applicable standards may apply for TAP waiver. Applications for this TAP waiver are available from and should be submitted to the Office of Academic Advisement.

Conditions/restrictions for the waiver are:

• Must have a good overall record with academic difficulties concentrated in one term.
• An appeal must be based on circumstances outside the College, such as a car accident or an eviction.
• The reason must be extenuating, extraordinary, or unusual. Normal family responsibilities, work, fear of failing a class do not meet this standard.
• Documentation MUST be provided to support a waiver request.

A student who received his/her first TAP award after July 1981 is restricted to one waiver as an undergraduate student and one waiver as a graduate student. A student may apply for multiple waivers of the "C" average requirement.

*The TAP C-average regulation requires that a student must have a C average (2.00) prior to receiving their fifth TAP semester. Transfer students who have received two or more years of TAP are eligible for TAP for their initial term at CSI but must meet the C-average requirement thereafter.

**A student who has received two academic years of State-funded financial aid including TAP (four semesters/payments) must have a cumulative C average (GPA = 2.00) in order to continue to receive payments.

*The TAP C-average regulation requires that a student must have a C average (2.00) prior to receiving their fifth TAP semester. Transfer students who have received two or more years of TAP are eligible for TAP for their initial term at CSI but must meet the C-average requirement thereafter.

**A student who has received two academic years of State-funded financial aid including TAP (four semesters/payments) must have a cumulative C average (GPA = 2.00) in order to continue to receive payments.

*The TAP C-average regulation requires that a student must have a C average (2.00) prior to receiving their fifth TAP semester. Transfer students who have received two or more years of TAP are eligible for TAP for their initial term at CSI but must meet the C-average requirement thereafter.

**A student who has received two academic years of State-funded financial aid including TAP (four semesters/payments) must have a cumulative C average (GPA = 2.00) in order to continue to receive payments.