Grading
At the end of each semester, all grades are submitted by the faculty through the Grade Entry System, by the published deadlines. Changes to previously submitted grades should be submitted through the Change of Grade form. Only grades that are higher than those previously submitted will be accepted; grades may not be lowered unless the Honor Council has recommended a grade degradation for an incomplete default grade.
Once the faculty has voted to approve the degrees for the students who are graduating (three days before Commencement), all transcripts are considered to be “frozen.” Following that vote, changes to the transcript, including changes of grade, are not permitted.
A student’s course work is evaluated on the basis of grades and credits taken. The letter grades used and their associated grade points are: A, 4.0; A-, 3.7; B+, 3.3; B, 3.0; B-, 2.7; C+, 2.3; C, 2.0; C-, 1.7; D+,1.3; D, 1.0; D-, 0.7; F, 0.0; and NF, 0.0. Grade point standing is obtained by summing the products of credits and grade points and dividing by the number of credits taken. Work taken during the summer and while on leave from the College will be included in determining grade point standing, but courses taken under the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option or graded pass/not passed are excluded. All one-credit courses must be marked as pass/not passed.
**Grades from courses taken while a student is enrolled in an international Study Away program will appear on a student's transcript, but will not be included in the grade-point standing unless earned as part of a Study Away/Teach Away (SATA) program or a program for which Connecticut College is the school of record.
**Beginning with students matriculating in Fall 2021, including transfer and RTC students.
Incomplete
Students who have participated in class and completed the majority of the work in the class but not completed all course requirements because of emergency or illness may request a temporary grade of Incomplete. Incompletes may only be granted after Limited Withdrawal ends and through the end of the examination period. In this situation, students should consult both the instructor and their class dean, and must submit the request officially to the instructor no later than the end of the examination period. There may be times when the student is incapacitated, when the request may come from the class dean. After discussing any relevant issues with the class dean, the instructor shall make the final determination as to whether or not to allow the temporary grade of Incomplete. Incomplete grades may not be given in the spring semester to graduating seniors.
The instructor will record the incomplete grade in the Grade Entry System at the time grades are due, as well as the grade the student would have received in the course if they received no credit for the missing work, which will become the default grade to be recorded as the permanent grade for the course should the student not complete the work by the deadline.
All work must be completed and submitted by the due date specified by the instructor, which must be no later than four weeks after the end of the examination period, at which point the instructor will record a permanent grade. Incompletes extended beyond four weeks require the approval of the instructor and the Committee on Academic Standing, and will be granted only in the most extraordinary circumstances. If the work is not completed and submitted by the student on or before the due date, The Office of the Registrar will convert the incomplete grade to the reported default grade.