Jessica,
Most of the participants in this forum agrees with you on the most difficult C Flag being related to Selective Service. It is important that you have the student document his specific situation and that you are in agreement that the student did not "knowingly and willingly fail to register." If the institution is making this decision you have to be comfortable with moving forward.
Sincerely, Chyrl
Chyrl Ayers
The most difficult c-flag I've seen is for selective service, for good reason. The student should provide reasons for not registering, especially since the high schools discuss it before graduation. The students that have had problems with this C-flag have usually been incarcerated for a long period of time or have traveled for a long time during childhood. Still, these have not been good enough reasons to allow title IV funding in most cases.
CORTNI, ED published DCL GEN-13-09 regarding C Codes beginning with the 13/14 Award Year pertaining to unusual enrollment history (UEH), so it is a federal requirement that UEH code 3 be resolved. This is done by first determining through the use of NSLDS which prior school/s the student attended. The second step is to determine if the student earned or did not earn academic credit at a prior institution and why. This is done by obtaining an academic transcript from the prior institution. The DCL indicates transcript or grade report, it doesn't say it has to be an official transcript so I would accept anything that shows classes and grades.
Regards,
David McGuffee
Yes, the new UEH code 3. I am not sure if this is the Federal regulation on my corporate regulation that we obtain the official transcript of all the previous attended colleges. It is hard enough to get the High School transcript much less every "official" transcript of colleges attended. Why official transcipts and not copies?
Cortni
Rosezza,
Selective Service can be a long and ardous process. It is difficult to be dependent on other agencies to timely perform task. If there is a way to build a relationship with someone at your Selective Service Office that might assist you on the ones that are more difficult to resolve.
Sincerely,
Chyrl Ayers
My school is in South FL and the school population is very diverse. the agency I find to be the most difficult is the Selective Service. We have man that can not clear C-codes because they no longer have the documention needed to send for a status form letter. and the one that do send for the letter it takes so long for the selective service to return it back to them.
