Grade Forgiveness Policy

Beginning Fall 2019, Undergraduate students may retake University of Delaware courses and have the lowest of the repeated course grades excluded from the GPA. Through the academic term during which a student attains a total of 28 credits attempted at UD, if a student receives a C- or lower on a UD course, then that course may be retaken later with only the higher grade included in the calculation of GPA and in the calculation of quality point deficit. A student may apply this to a particular course only once. Grade forgiveness applies only when repeating the same course (identified as the same course subject and course number or, in cases where the course subject or number has changed or courses are cross-listed, the same course ID).

A student may only apply this to a total of eight credits. A grade of P (Passing) cannot be used for grade replacement, except in courses that are offered only on a Pass/Fail basis. This policy may not be applied to courses in which grades are the result of an academic dishonesty finding through the Student Conduct process. No University of Delaware course can be removed from the GPA by a transferred course.

All course attempts and grades will be recorded on the transcript, with a notation to indicate which courses are not included in the GPA.