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Probation and Exclusion Policies

Continuation

Failure to move to the next level within three semesters results in permanent exclusion. Minimum requirements for continuation from year to year are as follows:

• First Year: a minimum of 30 semester hours passed after two semesters on first year standing and a 1.5 grade point average on all work attempted.
• Second Year: a minimum of 60 semester hours passed after two semesters on sophomore standing and a 1.67 grade point average on all work attempted.
• Third Year: a minimum of 90 semester hours passed after two semesters on junior standing and a 1.75 grade point average on all work attempted.
• During the fourth year, a student must make satisfactory progress toward fulfilling requirements for a degree. A student must also attain an overall C average (2.0 grade point average) for work taken during the senior year to qualify for graduation.

Graduation

To graduate from the College, a student must accumulate:

• A minimum of 128 academic semester hours plus the required 4 hours of physical education. Additional hours of physical education do not count toward the degree.
  • Students who do all of their work in Emory College must achieve a grade point average of at least 1.9 on all regularly graded work attempted.
  • Students who come to Emory College directly from another college with more than 16 hours of credit and those who take more than 16 hours at another institution after enrolling at Emory must achieve a 2.0 grade point average on all regularly graded work taken at Emory in order to graduate.
• A 2.0 average for all classes attempted after passing 90 semester hours and achieving senior status.
• Students are expected to graduate after two semesters at the senior level. Seniors not graduating after two semesters will be advised about their continuation in the College. Those seniors not on academic probation will receive a letter confirming the fact that there are a finite number of terms for which they may enroll.

Academic Probation

Students on probation will be expected to concentrate their energies on their studies in order to bring their work to the required standard, and to that end they should be especially diligent in attending to their academic responsibilities and refraining from participating in any activities that might interfere with their scholastic performance.

• A dean in the Office for Undergraduate Education or the Committee on Academic Standards may, at their discretion and irrespective of grades, declare probationary status for any student who, in their opinion, is not properly using his/her time and talents.
• At the end of any grading period, a student whose cumulative or senior grade-point average is less than 2.0 will incur academic probation. A student who fails in any semester to pass two-thirds of the hours taken or to attain at least a 1.5 grade point average will be placed on probation regardless of any previous average.

Exclusion—One Semester

• Any student who, after the first year, fails for two successive semesters of full-time work to pass two-thirds of the hours taken or to attain at least a 1.5 grade point average shall be automatically excluded regardless of any previous average. A student who is excluded under this rule will not be eligible to apply for readmission for the next regular (not summer) semester. For students excluded at the end of the spring term, the period of exclusion begins at the conclusion of the spring term and ends at the end of the next fall term. A petition for readmission for any subsequent term will be acted on by the Committee on Academic Standards A student who is readmitted and fails to meet the requirements set by the Committee will be excluded permanently.
• The Committee on Academic Standards reserves the right to exclude students prior to or at the end of the first year if, in the opinion of the Committee, their progress is not satisfactory. the Committee has stipulated that first-year students who, after two semesters, do not meet the 1.5 grade point average required for continuation to sophomore standing (see "Continuation Requirements" above) may be asked by the dean to sit out one regular semester before being permitted to enroll for a third semester of academic work.

Exclusion—Permanent

• A student who fails to meet minimum requirements for continuation from one class to the next after two semesters may continue for one additional semester of residence only with the approval of the dean of the college and the Committee on Academic Standards (see "Continuation Requirements" above). Should a student, at the end of the third semester, fail to meet minimum requirements for continuation, the student will be excluded permanently.
• A student who, after a semester-exclusion, is readmitted and fails to meet the readmission requirements set by the Committee on Academic Standards will be excluded permanently.