Financial Aid rule (barrier?) could use an update

[jimbogumbo]

https://www.wbez.org/stories/ineligible-for-financial-aid-because-of-decades-old-gpa/b3828091-0505-4ace-9b02-d9d35720d56a

[RatGuy]

This was my wife's issue. She dropped out of college in '08. She'd developed a neurological disability (and that directional state school had little in the way of disability services). She started working full time as a way to get insurance. Additionally, there were the initial student loans. So by the time we'd married and moved to my current place, her ancient GPA proved a significant hurdle for both enrollment and financial aid