Requirements for Academic Good Standing
At the conclusion of each term of enrollment, a student must have earned enough course credits to be in academic good standing.
1. At the end of the first term at Yale, a student must have earned at least four course credits.
2. At the end of the second term, a student must have earned at least eight course credits.
3. At the end of the third term, a student must have earned at least twelve course credits.
4. At the end of the fourth term, a student must have earned at least sixteen course credits.
5. At the end of the fifth term, a student must have earned at least twenty-one course credits.
6. At the end of the sixth term, a student must have earned at least twenty-six course credits.
7. At the end of the seventh term, a student must have earned at least thirty-one course credits.
Regardless of the number of credits accumulated, a student is not in academic good standing if the student's record shows the following: failure, in a term or over two or three successive terms, to receive credit for three courses from which the student did not formally withdraw. "Successive terms" means successive terms in which the student enrolls, whether or not broken by a withdrawal or by a leave of absence. See "Dismissal for Academic Reasons" and "Makeup of Course Deficiencies for Promotion or Academic Good Standing" under the heading "Academic Penalties and Restrictions" in this chapter.
