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Q.: Can a student who is concurrently enrolled in high school and college (sometimes referred to as dual enrollment) receive federal student aid?

A.: Per the federal regulations in 34 CFR 668.32(b), an otherwise eligible student may receive federal student aid if the student…"[i]s not enrolled in either an elementary or secondary school" (emphasis added). Thus, a student who is enrolled in college may not receive federal student aid if he or she is enrolled in high school at the same time.

Note that prior participation in dual enrollment does not disqualify an otherwise eligible first-year college student from receiving an Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG), as long as the student was not enrolled previously as a regular student in an ACG-eligible college program when he or she was still in high school and was at or below the age of compulsory school attendance. This is per the 2008-09 Federal Student Aid Handbook, page 1-64.

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