OSAP Academic Probation & Restriction

Note: This information is for full-time OSAP students only.

OSAP academic progress is a separate issue than academic probation at Tyndale. You can be in good standing at Tyndale with your program department and still not meet OSAP academic progress.

As a full-time OSAP recipient, you are expected to maintain successful OSAP academic progress. Full-time OSAP academic progress is maintained by the following two conditions:

  1. Completing a Full-Time Course Load

    Students are required to successfully maintain and complete a full-time course load. OSAP does not look at your grade point. Academic progress is assessed across all terms a student receives full-time funding:

    • If receiving OSAP for one term: Students must complete and pass three courses, or two courses if you have a registered permanent or persistent and prolonged disability with OSAP.

    • If receiving OSAP for two terms: Students must complete and pass six courses, or four courses if you have a registered permanent or persistent and prolonged disability with OSAP.

  2. Continuing Studies for the Same Program Without Interruption

    You are also required to successfully progress through your program with no interruptions. The following actions are common examples of failing to meet OSAP academic progress:

    • Changing programs
    • Changing institutions
    • Dropping from a full-time course load to a part-time course load
    • Withdrawing from a program (temporarily or permanently)
    • Failing courses
    • Repeating courses
    • Taking “extra” years to complete a program (e.g. enrolling for a fifth year for a four-year program), including adding multiple majors and/or minors
    • Private extensions
    • Failing to actively participate in courses (i.e., not attending classes, not submitting assignments, not writing exams)

Being placed on Academic Probation

First Instance: Warning. Still eligible to receive OSAP after submission of the OSAP Acknowledgement of Academic Probation Form with your unofficial transcript

Second Instance: One-year restriction

Third Instance: Three-year restriction

Fourth Instance: Five-year restriction

Fifth Instance: All provincial loans must be fully repaid before receiving further funding

Acknowledgement of Academic Probation Form:

  1. Section A: Check “yes”
  2. Section B: Sign or Adobe Digital Signature, and date
  3. Download an unofficial transcript from MyTyndale
  4. Merge the form and transcript into one document

  5. Upload it back to the OSAP site

Getting off an Academic Probation Period:

To be removed from your academic probation status, you must pass a full-time course load in the following academic year.

Once the year has passed, prepare a letter (accompanied by a transcript) to request the removal of Academic Probation status. Upload the letter (with transcript) on the OSAP site.