Grade Requirements
Richmont has specific policies related to grades and eligibility for graduation:
- A student must earn a cumulative 3.0 GPA for all Richmont courses appearing on the transcript. (Richmont does not round up a GPA.)
- Transferred courses, if accepted, appear on the transcript with the title of the course from the
transferring institution and the credit hours of the course from the transferring institution or Richmont, whichever is less. A grade of P (Pass) is recorded, but no grade points are applied.
- A maximum of two C grades (C+, C, C-) may be applied toward meeting course requirements.
- A student who earns a third C grade may repeat the course one time for credit.
- A student who earns a fourth C grade is subject to academic dismissal.
- A student who receives a term GPA below 3.0 during a given semester will receive a letter of academic warning from the Records Office and is placed on SAP warning.
- A student who receives a term GPA of less than 3.0 in two consecutive semesters will be subject to dismissal.
- Conditionally admitted students whose term GPA falls below a 3.0 for coursework taken within the first eight hours of courses evaluated with a traditional letter grade are subject to academic dismissal. Any student who receives an F is subject to dismissal from the University.
- Students enrolled in the School of Counseling must earn a minimum grade of B- in the following courses before continuing in the clinical sequence:
o CED5062: Introduction to Graduate Writing (if required)
o CED6113: Helping Relationships
o CED6123: Ethical, Legal and Professional Standards in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
o CED6143: Psychopathology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
o CED6913: Applied Practicum and Treatment Planning Lab in Counseling