| W | Withdrawn: you withdrew from the course after the drop period | Left out of your GPA, but it stays on your permanent record and the credits still count for billing. You can drop through the first 10 instructional days. From day 11 until the second business day after the 60% point of the semester, you withdraw yourself in the registration system. After that, until the last day of classes, you need a written petition to your college or school’s Studies committee showing circumstances beyond your control; a poor or expected grade, dislike of the course or a change of major doesn’t count, and if the petition is denied you get a final grade. After classes end, you can withdraw only if you were incapacitated, and you must ask within 60 days or before the next add/drop period ends, whichever is sooner. Retaking the course later doesn’t turn a W into an R. Rule |
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| INC | Incomplete: you couldn’t finish the course work for reasons beyond your control | Left out of your GPA. An incomplete needs your dean’s approval and the agreement of the Dean’s Office, your instructor and you. It’s offered only after the withdrawal deadline, only if you can still pass the course, and generally only once you’ve done at least 60% of the work. Your instructor sets the timeline, but the work is due no later than the start of the same semester the next academic year; lab work must be done the first time the lab is offered again. You can’t get a third incomplete while two or more from an earlier semester are outstanding. Retaking the course doesn’t turn an I into an R. Rule |
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| P or NP | Pass or No Pass: you chose the pass/no pass option, and the Registrar turns your instructor’s grade into P or NP | Neither enters your GPA, not even an NP. Degree students not on academic trial can take up to 6 courses pass/no pass from sophomore year on (transfer students: as many as their semesters remaining); physical education activity courses don’t count toward the 6. You can’t use it for courses that meet major, minor, college or school, or Catamount Core requirements, but you can for free electives. Your advisor approves the Pass/No Pass Form, which is due during add/drop, and your instructor isn’t told. The catalogue says a D or higher becomes P; the Registrar’s Grades page says a D− or higher does. P/NP credits don’t count toward the 12 graded credits you need for the Dean’s List. Non-degree, graduate and certificate students can’t use the option. Rule |
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| S or U | Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory, in courses where A–F grading doesn’t fit, such as seminars, internships and practica | Neither enters your GPA; they carry no quality points. For undergraduates, S/U applies to the whole course. Rule |
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| SP or UP | Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory Progress, in a course whose credits are linked across several semesters | Neither enters your GPA. An SP earns credit and may later become a letter grade, but never a UP or F; a UP earns no credit and may be changed to an F. Rule |
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| AU | Audit: you attend a course without credit | Left out of your GPA. You need the approval of the dean and the instructor, you must meet the instructor’s minimum performance levels to get the AU, and you pay tuition. You can’t switch an audit to credit after add/drop. Rule |
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| AF or XF | AF: administrative failure because your grade is missing. XF: failure for academic dishonesty | Both count as an F (0.00) in your GPA and academic standing. For an AF, ask your instructor why the grade is missing. Retaking the course doesn’t turn an XF into an R, so the XF keeps counting. Rule |
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| ANP or AUP | Administrative No Pass because a grade is missing, or Administrative Unsatisfactory Progress | Neither enters your GPA. Rule |
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| R | Repeated course: the grade of an attempt you later repeated | Left out of your GPA. Once a grade becomes an R, the earlier grade can no longer be looked up. Rule |
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| TR | Transfer credit from another school | Only the credit transfers; grades from other schools never enter your UVM GPA. Rule |
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| Repeated course | You took the same course again | Since August 30, 2020, you can repeat a standard UVM course once without approval, and you earn its credit only once. Your first grade turns into an R on your transcript, and only the new grade counts in your GPA, whether it’s higher or lower. The courses must match in subject and number exactly. A second repeat needs your dean’s approval; if it’s allowed, both earlier grades become R. An R never replaces an I, W or XF, and if you withdraw from the retake or don’t finish it with a final grade, your first grade stays. A repeat doesn’t bring a retroactive Dean’s List or change your standing for an earlier semester. Courses defined as repeatable count every time, with credit, until you reach their limit; then the standard rule applies. For courses repeated before August 30, 2020, every attempt counts. A retake after you graduate is non-degree work and doesn’t change your undergraduate GPA. Separately, if you’ve been away from UVM and every other accredited college for at least 3 calendar years, you can ask once for Academic Reprieve on all your earlier UVM work: failed courses are ignored, passed courses keep their credit, and your GPA starts again at 0. You petition your dean when you’re readmitted or before your first semester back ends, then need at least 30 more regularly graded UVM credits, none pass/no pass. Rule |
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| Transfer credit | Grades from another college | Grades from other schools never enter your UVM GPA and don’t appear on your UVM transcript; only the credit transfers. You get credit only for courses with a C or better, from a regionally accredited, degree-granting school, that match UVM courses. Your graduation GPA and your Latin honors ranking also use only UVM grades. If you repeat a transferred course at UVM, the transfer credit comes off, which lowers your credits but not your GPA. If you take elsewhere a course you already took at UVM, your UVM grade stays (a UVM W stays too, but the transfer course carries the credit). AP gives credit for scores of 4 or 5 (3 on some exams), IB higher level exams for scores of 5 or more, and credit by exam gives credit but no grade. UVM courses you took in high school, and courses you took as a non-degree student, join your undergraduate GPA when you enter a degree program; you can ask the Registrar to remove a high school grade, with its credit, until you graduate. You need 30 of your last 45 credits at UVM. Rule |
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