Can I apply for OSAP in the summer if I'm only taking one course?

Not unless you're a student registered with a disability. OSAP requires an 80% course load per term, so that would mean 1.6 courses, so round up to 2.

http://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/p...s_s ummer.pdf

Originally Posted by goodnews.inc

Not unless you're a student registered with a disability. OSAP requires an 80% course load per term, so that would mean 1.6 courses, so round up to 2.

Actually, I don't have a disability and I still got OSAP last summer :S

I took 4 courses though, so that played a big factor.

Originally Posted by Eternal Fire

Actually, I don't have a disability and I still got OSAP last summer :S

I took 4 courses though, so that played a big factor.

What the poster you quoted meant is that the standard policy for receiving OSAP is at least an 80% course load. Since a full course load in the spring or summer term is 2 courses/term, one would need to take a full course load to qualify for OSAP, as you did.

The exception is if you have a disability, which would exempt you from the 80% course load requirement.

You do not need to have both a disability and a full course load to qualify for OSAP.

Yup you can although you have to take at least 2 courses to be qualified for OSAP

yea it's 2 courses per sem if u want it (on a per term basis)

Originally Posted by Eternal Fire

Actually, I don't have a disability and I still got OSAP last summer :S

I took 4 courses though, so that played a big factor.

excellent reading job!




i wonder if at other schools, each course counts as less than it does at mac, otherwise why the 80% rule for the summer?