Adjusted Resident Credit (ARC)

政策

Any undergraduate student who leaves bet8体育娱乐入口 in academic difficulty 和 returns after at least one calendar year will be given the option of requesting a grade point average status equivalent to that of a student admitted as a transfer, according to the conditions 和 regulations of the policy.

Students wishing to avail themselves of this policy may receive procedural information from the Office of the University Registrar. It is recommended that students review the complete policy (see the 大学目录),然后再申请ARC.

Conditions Governing Eligibility for Adjusted Resident Credit

  1. Prior to the one year absence, the student must have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) less than 2.00.

  2. The student must have separated from the institution for at least one calendar year. A term in which the student received W grades cannot be counted as part of the calendar year separation.

  3. Upon returning to the University, the student must earn a minimum of 30 credits at bet8体育娱乐入口 to be eligible for a degree. This must include 12 hours of upper-level courses in the department of the declared major program.

  4. Upon return, a full-time student must have attained a 2.00 GPA for all work attempted since his or her return 和 must have completed a minimum of 12 semester hours. There may be no incomplete grades on the record. Courses that do not compute in the grade point average will not count toward the minimum of 12 semester hours.

  5. Upon satisfying the above requirements, the student must submit the application for Adjusted Resident Credit (Record Evaluation for Adjusted Resident Credit), to the Office of the University Registrar.

  6. This option will be available only ONCE during the student's career at ODU, 和 must be elected 和 the student's record adjusted prior to graduation. Waivers of the requirement that students have less than a 2.00 GPA can be made only in those programs that require greater than a 2.入场费00元.

  7. Consultation 和 approval by the appropriate department, 和 approval of the dean(s) of the college(s) in which the student's major program resides will be required. Once an application for Adjusted Resident Credit is approved 和 applied to the student's record, 这个动作是最终的.

  8. Students may elect to use both grade forgiveness 和 the Adjusted Resident Credit policy. 然而, students cannot use grade forgiveness for individual courses for which adjusted resident credit already has been applied. 除了, the application of adjusted resident credit will not change the number of times a student can elect to use grade forgiveness.

  9. 在此选项下:

    • eligible students will receive degree credit only for those courses in which grades of C (2.00) or better were earned prior to readmission

    • 同样的, hours attempted for courses in which grades of C-, D+, D, D- or F were received prior to readmission, will not be considered in computing the student's new cumulative GPA, 和

    • grade points earned for any course completed prior to readmission will not count in determining the student's new cumulative GPA.

  10. All grades received at the University will be part of the individual's official transcript 和 will be used to determine honor awards. 然而, computation of a new GPA for graduation 和 continuance will be based on work performed subsequent to reinstatement.

  11. In cases of dual jurisdiction, University continuance regulations will prevail.

成绩 for which ARC has been applied are indicated by "R" in front of the original letter grade.