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Deficiency Points

Academic Warning

A student who has accumulated between .1 and 14.9 deficiency points is usually placed on "Academic Warning." The following example illustrates this:

This student has attempted 15 credit hours, earned 25 points, and would have a QPHR of 1.66 with 5 deficiency points. The reason the deficiency point total is 5 is that that student needed 30 points to attain a 2.00 and by earning only 25, fell short by 5.

Academic Probation

A student who has accumulated a deficiency point total of 15 or more is usually placed on "Academic Probation" status. Using our previous example, consider the following grades as the student's next quarter:

This student has attempted 15 credit hours, earned 16.5 points, and would have a QPHR of 1.10 with 13.5 deficiency points for the quarter. The deficiency-point total for that quarter is 13.5, because the student needed 30 points to attain a 2.00, and by earning only 16.5, fell short by 13.5. Since the student earned 5 deficiency points last quarter, the total would now be 18.5.

Another way to calculate the student's deficiency points is to look at the student's totals after 2 quarters. The student has attempted 30 hours and has earned 41.5 points. In order to have a 2.00 CPHR, and be in "Good Standing", the student needed 60 points. Therefore, having earned only 41.5 points, the student has 18.5 deficiency points.

Removing Deficiency Points

Deficiency points are removed by earning more points than the minimum needed to achieve a QPHR of 2.00. Using our previous example, consider the following grades as the student's third quarter:

This student has attempted 15 hours, earned 40 points and would have a QPHR of 2.66. This time the student has earned 10 more points than needed to attain a 2.00. Therefore, the student has reduced the deficiency-point total from 18.5 to 8.5. Since the deficiency-point total has fallen below 15, the student has returned to Academic Warning status from Academic Probation status. The student will not be considered in "Good Academic Standing" until all deficiency points have been removed.