Calculate the amount of your semester Federal Pell Grant award amounts by using this award schedule and information from your paper or electronic Student Aid Report (SAR). If you don't have your SAR, you may access your SAR information online and download a copy at: www.fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/studentaccess.jsp. You will need your Federal PIN to view and download your SAR.

USING THE CHART
To use this chart, you need to know your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and your enrollment status. If you need information on how to calculate your correct enrollment status, click on the the enrollment status link. Your EFC can be found on your SAR.

1. Locate your EFC on your paper or electronic SAR.

2. On the Pell Grant Award Schedule, look at the left-hand column labeled "EFC" and find the range of numbers containing your particular EFC.

3. Look at the columns to the right labeled with the 4 different enrollment statuses. The appropriate PELL GRant award amounts for every EFC are printed for each enrollment status. FInd the column for your enrollment status and move across the same row as your EFC until you find the award amount for your particular enrollment status.

DISBURSEMENT INFORMATION
If you have chosen direct deposit as your preferred method of disbursement, your Pell Grant funds will be available in your direct deposit account on the dates listed below.

If you did not select direct deposit as your preferred method of disbursement, your Fall and Spring semester checks will be mailed to you on the dates listed below.

Note: If you miss the regularly scheduled disbursement date because your FAFSA was not processed in time, you may still receive a late disbursement of Pell if processing of your application is completed before your last day of attendance. Find more information on our PELL Q & A page.

ATTENDANCE
To qualify for any Federal financial aid payments, you must actually begin attendance in your classes. Before disbursing your Pell Grant, we will verify your enrollment status with the Registrar. If you are excessively absent from a class during the first 5 weeks of the semester, the Registrar may record you as having unofficially withdrawn from that class. The credits for any course from which you have withdrawn, unofficially or otherwise, are not counted in calculating your enrollment status, even though you may still be charged for these courses. If you receive a completion grade in any course not included for payment in your Pell Grant check, you may request an award recalculation at the end of the semester.

WITHDRAWALS AND OVERPAYMENTS
Federal regulations specify that you must attend at least 60% of the semester before you become eligible for 100% of your federal student aid awards for that term. If you withdraw from all your classes before you have completed at least 60% of the semester, the College must determine what portion of your federal awards you are entitled to receive according to an attendance formula prescribed in federal regulations. If you have received, or the College has received on your behalf, more federal student aid funds than the formula allows, you will have to repay any award amount to which you were not entitled. If you fail to repay any award amount to which you were not entitled, you risk losing your eligibility for future federal aid payments. The dates listed below mark the point in each term when you have earned 100% of your semester awards:

POST-WITHDRAWAL DISBURSEMENTS
If you withdraw from your classes before the scheduled disbursement of your Federal Pell Grant, you may be eligible to receive a pro-rated award payment based on the number of days you attended classes up to the date you withdrew. If you are eligible for a pro-rated Pell Grant disbursement, you will be notified by CUNY about your eligbility for any post-withdrawal award monies. You will be required to indicate in writing whether you wish to receive these funds before they will be made available to you.

PAYMENTS FOR REMEDIAL COURSEWORK
You may receive federal award payments for no more than 30 hours of non-credit remedial course work. This restriction does not apply to English as a Second Language courses.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
In accordance with Federal guidelines and University policy, you must be making satisfactory progress in your program of study in order to remain eligible for federal award programs. You will be measured for satisfactory progress once each year after the spring term and notified by mail if you are found not to be meeting the satisfactory progress standard. Copies of these satisfactory progress guidelines are available from the financial aid pages of the College's web site at: www.bmcc.cuny.edu/finaid/progress/federal.html.

SUMMER PELL GRANT ELIGIBILITY
You may receive up to 2 full-time semesters of Pell Grant in any award year. If you do not use all of your scheduled Pell Grant eligibility in the Fall or Spring semesters of an award year because either you were not enrolled, or were not enrolled full-time, you may be able to receive a Pell Grant disbursement for attendance in the following Summer Session(s). The amount of your summer Pell Grant will be calculated from your summer session enrollment, your EFC, and the College's records of your remaining Pell eligibility. Calculated summer Pell Grant estimates can be applied against tuition charges to your summer session bill. If you have questions about summer Pell Grant eligibility, speak with a Bursar or Financial Aid representative at summer registration.

PELL GRANT PURCHASE ADVANCE
Since Federal Pell Grant awards for the Fall semester are not paid until November and Spring awards not paid until April, we make a portion of your award available at the beginning of the semester to help you purchase books and supplies. You may be eligible to purchase your books, school supplies and Metrocards from the college bookstore using your validated BMCC CUNYCARD ID. Your purchase advance could be worth up to $500 and will be based on the amount of Pell Grant remaining after the payment of tuition and fees. Utilize your advance at the bookstore anytime between the first day of class and the end of the third week of each semester. Your eligibility for the advance will be displayed on the PANTHER student information system for the first 3 weeks of each semester. Obtain more information about your eligibility for the purchase advance here.