AUHS School of Pharmacy grading scale with Letter and Grade Points

The School of Pharmacy at AUHS has a general policy concerning acceptable grades. In the School of Pharmacy, any grade less than C is considered a failing grade. It is policy that students may not progress in the program until the failed course has been successfully repeated. A Pharmacy class may be repeated only once in the program. Please consult individual course syllabus for specifics concerning each course.
Students at the school receive grades based on classroom participation, laboratory and project work, written examinations, as well as externship evaluation. Students are given a grade record for each course registered in. The School of Pharmacy uses the following grading system:

Grade Explanations

Incomplete grade (I) in a course is given only for circumstances beyond a student’s control. It will not be granted as a remedy for course overload, failure on a final examination, absence from a final examination for reasons other than an emergency, or a low grade to be raised with extra work.

To receive an incomplete, the student is responsible for initiating a request to receive a grade of “I” by contacting both the course coordinator and Office of Academic Affairs. If the request is approved, the course coordinator reports an “I” as well as the grade the student would have received if the deficiency is not removed within the time limit. An “I” notation must be changed to an earned letter grade before the end of the following term. Failure to complete course requirements will cause the incomplete work to be counted as zero and factored in with the existing grade to calculate the final grade for the course.

The grade of W indicates withdrawal from a course. Students wishing to withdraw from a course must meet the following requirements:

Within the first seven calendar days of the quarter, students may withdraw from any course with no record of the individual course withdrawal on their permanent academic record. After the “no-record drop” deadline, students may withdraw with a “W” grade from any course, but only for serious and compelling reasons. Please refer to the financial aid section of the catalog for further information regarding tuition.

After the deadline for withdrawal (last day of the seventh week – refer to the calendar), a student may request permission to be allowed to withdraw from all of her/his classes because of a medical emergency or extraordinary circumstance by submitting a withdrawal form to the Dean of the School of Pharmacy. The W designation carries no connotation of quality of student performance and is not calculated in the grade point average. See the University Catalog for more information.