Academic Forgiveness Policy

The Academic Forgiveness Policy is designed to avoid placing an unnecessary burden on students who previously made an unsatisfactory start at Mount Aloysius College. It is not intended to enable students with chronically poor academic performance to stay in school. Academic forgiveness is granted only once for students who meet the following requirements:

1. The student has not been enrolled full-time at Mount Aloysius College for three (3) years prior to the date of readmission.
2. The student has completed at least twelve (12) credits of full- or part-time course work with a GPA of 2.0 or better since readmission to Mount Aloysius College and is currently matriculated in a degree/diploma granting program.

Courses to be forgiven must meet the following requirements:

1. Up to fifteen (15) credits may be forgiven from the student’s previous work (meaning prior to re-admission) at Mount Aloysius College; credits to be forgiven need not all be from the same semester’s work.
2. Only courses taken atMountAloysius Collegewill be considered for forgiveness.
3. All credits to be forgiven must be applied for at the same time. The application for academic forgivenessmust be completed prior to the semester of graduation.
4. Grades of D, E, or F may be forgiven; however, grades of D which are forgiven do not satisfy any major or program specific degree requirements.

Application for Academic Forgiveness is made to the Registrar's Office. All courses forgiven will remain on the student's transcript but are not included in the calculation of the student's grade point average. Students may repeat courses in which they received a grade of D, E, or F without using the forgiveness policy. For more information, please refer to Repeating a Course section found elsewhere in this Catalog.