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You will be Required to Withdraw (RTW) from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV if your Term GPA is below 2.00 AND your CGPA is also below 2.00 while on Academic Probation (OAP).

If you are RTW, you may not enroll in classes at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. If already enrolled for the next term, your enrolment will be cancelled and any fees paid for that term will be refunded upon application for a tuition refund.

How can I get back into ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV if I am Required to Withdraw?

Take the opportunity to resolve the factors that may have affected your studies. There are two options for continuing your studies at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV:

Option 1

Consult BC Transfer Guide to determine if a course is equivalent to one you've taken at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV or taken before entering ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.

Option 2: The Back on Track Program

This program is a three-term commitment designed to help students achieve academic success. With a guided analysis of the areas of difficulty, personalized academic advice and support, and career advising, the majority of students can go on to successfully complete their degree. Should you choose to participate, this program will provide you with the following:

• a dedicated Back on Track Program academic advisor
• a Learning and Study Skills Inventory (LASSI) Assessment
• a one-on-one meeting with a Learning Specialist from the Student Learning Commons where you will review your LASSI and then begin to develop your own individual goals
• a career assessment
• individualized referrals to specific workshops, supports and other on-campus resources

Please see the Back on Track page for more information about this program and other related programs to assist you in achieving academic success.

How can I get back into ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV if I'm on Extended Withdrawal (EW)

If you are on Extended Withdrawal (EW), and are reapplying to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, you will be eligible for readmission after completing ONE of the following five options at another postsecondary institution:

• 24 - 35 units with a minimum 3.50 GPA
• 36-47 units with a minimum 3.00 GPA
• 48-59 units with a minimum 2.75 GPA or with the acceptance GPA* , whichever is higher
• 60 or more units with the acceptance GPA*
• a completed 2 year technical diploma with a 70% minimum average and at least 24 units of transferable course work with a minimum 2.75 GPA (the transferable work may be within the diploma program or supplementary to it )

*Acceptance GPA is the minimum GPA that BC College transfer students must achieve in order to enter ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV in a given term. Because of enrollment limits, the acceptance GPA will fluctuate

Alternatives to dropping
Talk to your instructor - you do not need your instructor's approval to drop the course but he or she will be able to give you an idea of how you are doing overall, offer some suggestions for improvement and explain other options available to you (e.g., deferrals, extensions). See www.sfu.ca/students/calendar/.

Tutoring
Consider tutoring and other available resources (e.g., study skill classes, workshops etc.). See the .

Deadlines
Know the deadlines for withdrawing. See www.sfu.ca/students/deadlines.

Financial situation
Withdrawing from a class or classes can have an impact on your current or future financial assistance. If you have received financial aid in the form of a student loan or a scholarship/bursary you should meet with a Financial Aid Advisor to let them know you have applied for a withdrawal. Go to www/sfu.ca/students/financialaid/.

If you have passed the deadline for dropping courses on your own, you may be eligible to apply for a Withdrawal Under Extenuating Circumstances (WE). Approval is not guaranteed; however, if your application is approved, a notation of WE will appear on your transcript.

You may not repeat more than five courses in a degree program. Courses taken at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV for which you have already received transfer credit from another institution will count within the current limit of five repeats. This limit may be extended by the dean of the faculty.

If you intend to enroll in a sixth or subsequent repeat course, you should seek advice from your major department advisor or Academic Advising before submitting your request for an extension of the limit to your dean.

No individual course may be repeated more than once except with the permission of the department offering the course. Students wishing to enroll in a course for the third time should consult an advisor in the department.

Students can only duplicate Special Topics courses when the course topic is deemed to be the same as the one for which the student has already received credit.

You may not receive transfer credit for a course which is a repeat of a course passed at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.

If you enroll at another post-secondary institution in a repeat course already completed and complete the course with a passing grade, the transfer credit will remain on the academic record as a repeat, with a zero unit value. If the course is completed with a failing grade, or is dropped, the transfer credit will remain on the academic record. A department may permit credit to count for both a transfer course and an ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV course, if the course content is judged to be sufficiently different.

Current limits on course repeats, where one course is an ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV course, will apply to repeated transfer courses. The implementation of this policy will not affect the method of calculating grade point averages.