Grade Forgiveness
Grade Forgiveness offers a student the opportunity to retake a course and earn a higher grade that will be substituted for the previous lower grade and thus raise the GPA. Grade Forgiveness Request Forms
are available in the Registrar’s Office (MH 161) or on the Registrar’s Web site, http://www.registrar.sdes.ucf.edu. Requests must be submitted no later than the last day of Late Registration and Add/Drop for the term/session in which the student has registered for the course being repeated. The following policies apply:
- Grade Forgiveness is limited to two courses;
- Grade Forgiveness may not be used twice for the same course;
- Grade Forgiveness will only be awarded if the original and repeated courses both are taken at UCF;
- All grades will remain on the student’s official transcript. The original course grade will be marked with a
T
to indicate that the course subsequently has been repeated, or a note describing the initial attempt, and the repeat course grade will be marked with an R
. The original grade always will appear on the transcript but only the repeated course grade will be calculated into the GPA;
- If it is determined that the student is ineligible for the Grade Forgiveness policy, neither a refund of fees nor automatic withdrawal from the course will be made;
- If a student applies for Grade Forgiveness and later withdraws, or receives an
I
grade or NC
grade in the course, the attempt will count as one of the allotted Grade Forgiveness attempts, and the GPA will calculate both grades;
- UCF does not honor Grade Forgiveness granted at other institutions unless it is part of an Associate in Arts or a specific statewide articulated Associate in Science degree transferred from a Florida Public Community College or State University. Grade forgiveness awarded within a bachelor’s degree from a Florida State System institution is not honored at UCF. UCF’s Grade Forgiveness policy may not be honored by other colleges, universities, professional schools, or national testing associations;
- Due to the two-course limit, a student who has repeated two or more courses at a Florida Public Community College or State University and included those courses in the transfer of an AA or a specific statewide articulated AS degree will not be granted any Grade Forgiveness at UCF;
- Grade Forgiveness awarded for repeated courses will not retroactively alter any previous academic action (i.e. academic probation or disqualification). In addition, no academic records can be altered after a student graduates;
- Grade Forgiveness is not retroactive and, therefore, may not be used for a course repeated before Fall 1981. If a student who repeated a course at UCF before 1981 and did not use the previous forgiveness policy may repeat the course again. In this case, the lower of the previous two grades will be forgiven. This special circumstance is the only one in which a student will be allowed to repeat a course more than once; and
- With prior approval from the Dean’s office in which the course is offered, a student can only substitute a course different from the original one if:
- the substitute course reflects a change in prefix, number, hours, or title but not in substance; or
- the substitute course replaces a course no longer offered by UCF.
Repeated Enrollment in Same Course: Beginning Fall 1997, a student enrolled in the same undergraduate college credit course more than twice shall pay matriculation at 100% of the full cost of instruction (Non-Florida Resident rates).