The following requirements are subject to all other requirements and exceptions set forth in this Bulletin:

1. The degree of Juris Doctor (JD) is granted to students who, having met the entrance requirements before beginning law school, have completed three academic years of full-time study within five years of the date of matriculation; have received a passing grade in courses totaling 88 semester hours; have satisfactorily completed such other work as may be prescribed from time to time; and have complied with the scholarship requirements set forth below.

   It is the responsibility of the student to ascertain that the 88-credit-hour requirement has been met. Each student will receive transcript printouts during the academic year. These transcript printouts should be carefully checked to see that they list the correct number of credits, the correct courses and grades. Any errors should be reported immediately to the law school Registrar.

2. Each candidate for graduation must file an official Application For Graduation in the Office of the Dean early in the term in which graduation is expected. Students are required to register for at least one credit in the term of graduation.

3. The scale of grading is as follows:
   

   A+	4.00	Exceptional
   A	4.00
   A-	3.75
   B+	3.25
   B	3.00
   B-	2.75
   C+	2.25
   C	2.00	Adequate
   C-	1.75
   D	1.00
   F	0.00	Failure

4. Any student whose record in grades, attendance, or classroom performance at the end of any semester in residence, including the first, indicates lack of capacity, interest, or diligence may be excluded or placed on academic probation at the discretion of the faculty.

5. A student must attain an average of at least C- for all the work in the first year in order to be advanced to the second year. Failure to attain this independent yearly average for the first year will result in an automatic exclusion from the school. Students whose academic average for the first year satisfies this requirement but is less than the C average required at the end of the second year shall be placed automatically on academic supervision. In order to remain in good academic standing, the student under supervision must satisfy all conditions imposed by the Faculty Committee on Petitions and Academic Standards.

6. A student must attain a cumulative average of at least C at the end of the second year in order to advance to the third year. Failure to attain the cumulative average will result in an automatic exclusion from the school. A student who attains a cumulative average of C or better at the end of the second year, but less than a C average for the work of the second year, is automatically placed upon academic probation during the third year.

7. A student must attain a cumulative average of at least C at the end of the third year in order to be graduated from the school. Failure to attain the cumulative average will result in an automatic exclusion from the school. A student who attains a cumulative average of C or better at the end of the third year, but less than a C average for the work of the third year, is automatically placed upon academic probation. In order to be eligible to graduate, the student on probation must satisfy all conditions imposed by the Faculty Committee on Petitions and Academic Standards.

8. A student who at any time accumulates 12 semester hours of D and F grades is automatically on academic probation for the semester following this accumulation.

9. A student on academic probation is required to meet the conditions of probation that are established by the Faculty Committee on Petitions and Academic Standards. Failure to meet the conditions of academic probation will result in an automatic exclusion from the school. A student who is placed on probation at the end of the third year must meet the conditions imposed by the Faculty Committee on Petitions and Academic Standards in order to be eligible to graduate.

10. A student on academic probation is not eligible to hold office in the Student Bar Association, nor to participate in any activity for credit, any clinical program, moot court competitions, or the Client Counseling Program.

11. A student who at any time accumulates ten semester hours of F grades is automatically excluded from the school immediately upon such accumulation.

12. Upon exclusion from the school for any of the reasons set forth herein, readmission to the school may be sought only by the submission of a written petition to the Faculty Committee on Petitions and Academic Standards.

13. In computing grade averages, the following numerical equivalents will be used: A+ = 4.00; A = 4.00; A- = 3.75; B+ = 3.25; B = 3.00; B- = 2.75; C+ = 2.25; C = 2.00; C- = 1.75; D = 1.00; F = 0. For purposes of any average (yearly or cumulative), the required average must be fully attained rather than approximated. For example, a grade average numerically equivalent to 1.749 would not be a C- average. To attain a C- average, a student must have a grade average with the numerical equivalent of at least 1.75 (the full value of C- on the equivalent scale). Similarly, to attain a C average, a student must have a grade average with the numerical equivalent of at least 2.00 (the full value of C on the numerical scale). A grade average numerically equivalent to 1.999, then, would not constitute a C average.

14. It is the policy of the faculty not to permit a student who has received a grade in a course to take a re-examination or to repeat the course for the purpose of receiving credit in the course or raising the course grade. This policy will not always apply to courses that are designated by the faculty as courses that must be successfully completed as a condition of graduation, and the faculty may relax the policy in other exceptional cases; but in all cases of repetition of a course, the cumulative grade average shall be computed by including both the original grade and the grade on repetition of the course; the later grade will not be substituted for the original; in cases of a re-examination, a grade of "pass" will be substituted for the original grade if the re-examination grade is C or above; if the re-examination grade is below C, that grade will be recorded.

15. A cumulative grade average will be the only criterion used for the purpose of determining class rank, honors, and awards. A student's cumulative grade average will include all previous semesters of graded course work completed by the student at the school.

16. In addition to the standard grading scale, certain courses are offered on a honors/satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.