Academic Forgiveness
The Academic Forgiveness Policy (AFP) allows you — an enrolled, degree-seeking Clemson student — to eliminate a maximum of two courses where you earned a D or F grade from your grade point average (GPA) calculation.
As such, academic forgiveness can impact your GPA. However, it does reduce your earned credit hours, so be sure to think through how that will affect your graduation plans before requesting that a grade be forgiven.
If you are seeking to regain a scholarship for an upcoming academic year, you must invoke the AFP before the first day of class of the Fall semester. For financial aid purposes, courses repeated under this policy resulting in duplicate credit do not count for satisfactory academic progress. We recommend you speak with the Office of Student Financial Aid if you have questions about how Academic Forgiveness may affect your scholarship eligibility.
How to Apply for Academic Forgiveness
To have a D or F grade forgiven, you must complete a request. You can do so in iROAR 〉 Student Self-Service 〉 Student Records 〉 Request Academic Forgiveness.
If you have questions regarding submitted forms, contact Enrolled Student Services online or call 864-656-2174.
Academic Forgiveness Policy Conditions:
- The Academic Forgiveness Policy (AFP) shall apply only to courses taken at Clemson University.
- The AFP may not be applied to a course taken on a Pass/No Pass basis.
- Courses taken prior to fall semester 2003 may not be considered for academic forgiveness.
- You may apply academic forgiveness to a particular course only once.
- Students with a first term of enrollment beginning summer 2019 may apply academic forgiveness to a particular course only once.
- The AFP may not be applied to any course in which you were previously found in violation of the academic integrity policy.
- Once applied, academic forgiveness cannot be reversed.
- D or F grades in required courses may be eliminated from the GPA before the course is repeated.
- A forgiven course cannot be used to satisfy any prerequisite.
- Course substitutions are not permitted in situations where Academic Forgiveness has been previously applied.
- Any course used to meet a graduation requirement must be repeated satisfactorily at Clemson University. Both grades will remain on the transcript, degree progress report and other official documents.
- Contact your academic advisor to discuss academic forgiveness prior to submitting the request for approval.
- You cannot receive transfer credit for a course that received academic forgiveness.
You may not invoke the AFP after graduation. After graduation, you may repeat coursework, but both grades will be calculated in the grade-point average.
