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79basis for a waiver. The failure of a student to provide evidence and proof of the circumstances supporting the waiver, and especially the failure to even request a waiver on the Transfer Report, indicates that the transfer may not really be the result of the circumstances offered to support the waiver request. (rule 19-8.1)Q. 17-3 A student%u2019s family claims that it cannot afford to send a student to a Private School because of an increase in tuition costs at the Private School, or because the family%u2019s financial situation has had a negative change, and as a result, the family cannot afford the cost of the Private School. Can the student get full eligibility under the General Waiver Rule, rule 17-8.1?A. A tuition-paying Private School student may successfully show a %u2018hardship condition%u2019 based on a substantial negative change in financial conditions, however, the student must show that the change was unforeseeable, permanent, substantial, and significantly beyond the control of the student and the student%u2019s family. Increases in tuition or additional costs at a Private School are considered %u2018foreseeable%u2019 and generally do not meet the criteria. To be considered, the claimed negative change in the family%u2019s financial condition must have arisen after the student%u2019s Enrollment at the Private School. In addition, the student must have attempted to address the negative change in the family%u2019s financial condition with the Private School (e.g. financial aid), and show that any aid or assistance from the Private School was insufficient to address the negative change in the family%u2019s financial conditions. In all cases, the student and the student%u2019s family must clearly show that the cost of the Private School is no longer affordable. (rule 17-8.4(c))Q. 17-4 A student is Enrolled in a School which is not a School which Serves the Student%u2019s Residence. It is becoming more and more difficult to travel to and from the School. If the student transfers to the School which Serves the Student%u2019s Residence, will the student be eligible for Varsity competition under the General Waiver Rule?A. Generally, no. When it was decided that the student would enroll at a School which did not serve the student%u2019s residence, the student and his/her family were well aware that transportation problems might arise (the problems were clearly %u2018foreseeable%u2019), and with such understanding, they voluntarily assumed full responsibility for any current and any future transportation problems. When transportation problems then do arise, such as road construction, changes in carpools, weather-related difficulties, rise in gas prices, family-related transportation problems, etc., these problems were foreseeable and were voluntarily assumed, and therefore were problems which likely would not support a waiver of the rule. (rules 17-8.1, 17-8.3)Q. 17-5 A School has discontinued an academic program in which the student participated. If the student transfers to a new School that offers the same program can the student get full eligibility under the General Waiver Rule?A. A transfer made as a result of a School discontinuing a particular academic program might establish a hardship condition, however, there must be proof that the student was fully enrolled in the academic program at the former School, the program had been a significant focus of the student and a focus of the student%u2019s education program, the program was discontinued at the former School and the student actually Enrolled in the same or a similar program at the new School. The discontinuance of a single subject, like calculus, will not result in a student receiving a waiver. (rules 17-8.1, 17-8.3)Q. 17-6 A student, without a parental move, transfers to a new School because of a medical condition. Will the student be allowed to compete at his new School at the Varsity level?A. Transfers because of a medical condition may qualify for full eligibility under the General Waiver Rule (17-8.1) provided a physician substantiates the need for Rule 17 - Investigations ... Waivers