How can I work on a Planned Sixth-Year (Rank I) program and still be eligible for a federal student loan?
Students who wish to be loan-eligible must be enrolled in both a certification-only program (their primary program) and the Planned Sixth-Year program (their secondary program). For example, a student in elementary education will be loan eligible if he/she has “Certification-only – Gifted” as the primary program and the Planned Sixth-Year in Elementary Education as the secondary program. A second example is a student in the Department of Educational Administration, Leadership, and Research, who could declare as the primary program, “Certification-only – DPP,” and have the secondary program be the Planned Sixth-Year program. Students who enroll in both programs can work on them concurrently; however, the aid will be paid based on the certification-only program. The student can continue to receive loans until it is determined that he or she should reasonably have completed the loan-eligible program (i.e., “satisfactory academic progress toward completion of the program”), which is about
