Summary of Periods	Fall/Spring	Summerterm 1 & 2
	Add/Drop.............................. Course Overload................... Pass/Fail.............................. Withdrawal............................	First 7 days First 7 days First 25 days After first 7 days through 10th week	First 3 days First 3 days First 8 days After first 3 days through 3rd week

Add/Drop
Deadline: 7th day of semester or 3rd day during Summerterm
Students may add/drop courses during the first 7 days of the semester (or first three days during summer session) with the written permission of the instructor of each course added or dropped and their advisors. Students may request from the academic petitions committee a late schedule change with instructor and advisor permission. Approved late changes may result in a $45 late change fee.


Course Overload
Deadline: 7th day of semester or 3rd day during Summerterm
Students may take any four courses in a semester, regardless of their unit value, without additional tuition charges. Students may also take five or six courses that total no more than 4.75 units without additional tuition charges. An overload consists of five or six courses totaling more than 4.75 units, or more than six courses.

Students must petition through the Registrar’s Office to take a course overload. They may not do so until the first week of classes in the semester they would like to overload. Any student (excluding first year students and first semester transfer students) with an overall GPA of 3.2 or a 3.2 GPA the prior semester (excluding summerterm) and making satisfactory progress toward graduation may take an overload totaling up to 5.75 units free of charge. Students with an overall GPA of at least 2.5 (excluding first year students) may take a course overload with additional tuition payment. Each full-time student matriculating between Fall 2001 and Fall 2004 inclusive, who has a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better, may take a course overload with no additional charge once during his or her academic career (except to make up a deficiency in progress toward graduation, e.g. to make up for a reduced load or an earlier failure). The provision for the free overload was created to address the need to fulfill the 33.5 unit requirement for graduation.

Pass/Fail Grade Option
Deadline: 25th day of semester or 8th day of Summerterm
Students may take up to four courses pass/fail during their four years at SLU, including courses that satisfy distribution requirements. Students may not take courses in their declared major or minor pass/fail. Students may not take more than one optional pass/fail course in a single semester. Students must complete a pass/fail form and get the instructor’s permission to take a course pass/fail within the first 25 days after classes begin. Students who want to do so after 25 days must send a late schedule change petition to the Academic Petitions Committee, care of the Registrar’s Office. Please note that the pass/fail option is offered to encourage students to explore new areas of study in which they are interested but have little or no background. It is NOT offered to allow for removal of deficient mid-term or late-term grades. Students who petition for a late pass/fail must be aware of the spirit of the pass/fail option!


Withdrawal from a course
Deadline: After first 7 days and until end of 10th week of semester
Provided they have the signature of the instructor and their advisor, students may ADD or DROP courses during the first 7 days of classes without a permanent record being made of the change. Students who wish to add or drop courses after the first seven days of classes must petition to the Academic Petitions committee for a late schedule change. Approved late changes may result in a $45 fee for each schedule change.

If a student’s petition for a late drop is denied, he or she may withdraw from the course. Students may withdraw from two courses during their academic career at SLU. They are permitted to do so after the first seven days of classes until the end of the tenth week of classes. Students must submit a withdrawal form properly executed to the Registrar’s office. The course will remain on the transcript with a ‘W’ grade. If a withdrawal form, properly executed, is not submitted before the deadline, the student remains enrolled in the course and is graded accordingly. Withdrawing from FYP or FYS is not permitted. Students who wish to withdraw from a course after the end of the tenth week of classes must submit the proper form as well as a petition for a late schedule change with an explanation for the lateness of the request to the academic petitions committee, care of the Registrar’s office.

Students need to know that they must be taking a minimum of 3.5 units per semester to be considered full time. Often, withdrawal from a course makes them part-time students and may affect financial aid, athletic eligibility, class year (which lowers registration priority and housing selection priority), foreign student visas, Dean’s list inclusion, free fifth course eligibility, graduation status, health insurance, car insurance, and/or veterans’ benefits.


Repeated Courses
A student may not repeat courses without the approval of the advisor and the director of academic advising except for courses required for graduation or the major. Students may repeat a course one time; the higher grade will be computed into the cumulative average. Grades from both attempts will remain on the transcript. A repeated course does not earn additional credit toward graduation unless the first attempt received a failing grade.


Medical Withdrawal
If a student is interested in taking a medical withdrawal from one or two courses (but not their full course load), there is a form the student must complete, a form for each professor involved to complete, and a requirement that medical documentation be presented to Dean of Student Life for review. The medical documentation may be from campus professionals or outside professionals. If the medical request is for psychological reasons, the dean will consult with the Director of Counseling Services before making a final decision. If the medical request is because of illness/injury, the dean may discuss the situation with the director of the Health Center before making the decision.

For a complete medical withdrawal, the student will need to meet with either Dean or Associate Dean of Student Life to explain the situation and the reason for the medical withdrawal. He/she will complete a "withdrawal request form" and must provide medical documentation from a health care professional to support the request (again, either from an on-campus or off-campus professional). The Dean of Student Life will review all the information and make the decision in much the same way as for a medical withdrawal from one or two courses. It is often easier to receive a medical withdrawal for all courses since sometimes a student wants to withdraw from one course in which he/she is doing poorly anyway.

Advisors are reminded that medical withdrawals are limited to dire cases of mental or physical breakdowns, accidents, or illness and always require medical documentation. In cases of substance abuse, students usually first receive a personal withdrawal, which might later be changed to a medical withdrawal when certification of treatment is presented to the Student Life Office.

Under no circumstances may a medical withdrawal be granted for semesters prior to the last semester for which the student was registered.


Leave of Absence
A leave of absence may be granted by the dean of student life to any student who is in good academic and social standing. Such a student may be readmitted at the start of a term provided that: (1) readmission is within three terms of the student’s leaving, (2) the University receives a 60-day notice of the student’s intention to return and (3) there is housing and classroom space available. Only one course per semester may be transferred to St. Lawrence while a student is on a leave of absence.