Completion of Degree Requirements at the End of a Fall Term
Students who at the end of a fall term complete the requirements for graduation may be of three kinds: (1) those who complete such requirements in eight terms of regular enrollment; (2) those who have accumulated thirty-six course credits or more, all earned at Yale, in fewer than eight terms of regular enrollment; and (3) students admitted by transfer to Yale College and students whose admission to Yale College was deferred until a spring term. (Note that acceleration credits may not yield a completion of degree requirements at the end of a fall term; see "Acceleration Policies" in this chapter.)
1. The following rules apply to students of these three kinds:
(a) By the day on which the student's course schedule is due in the final term of enrollment, the student must notify the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing through the residential college dean that the fall term will be the student's last term of enrollment.
(b) Such notification must include written certification from the student's director of undergraduate studies that the student will have completed all the requirements of the major program by the end of the fall term, and from the student's residential college dean that the student will have fulfilled the distributional requirements by that time. Forms on which to notify the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing that a fall term is to be a student's last term of enrollment in Yale College are available in the offices of the college deans.
2. Failure to observe the deadline will result in the student's being charged a fine of $100.
3. Students who complete degree requirements at the end of a fall term are awarded their degrees and their diplomas at Commencement at the conclusion of the spring term of that academic year and are considered to be members of the class that graduates at that Commencement. General Honors and Distinction in the Major are also awarded at that time. If a student who completes degree requirements at the end of a fall term wishes to participate in the commencement exercises held in the previous academic year, however, the student may do so with the permission of the residential college master and dean. Such might be the case, for example, of a student who because of a leave of absence did not qualify for graduation with the class in Yale College with which he or she entered as a freshman. Such a student would not receive the degree or diploma until the May of the academic year in which degree requirements were completed.
4. A student whose last term of enrollment is a fall term is eligible, upon application and payment of a fee, for continued coverage by the Yale Health Plan during the subsequent spring term, just as if the student were on leave of absence for that term. Such coverage extends to August 31. See "Leave of Absence" under the heading "Leave of Absence, Withdrawal, and Readmission" in this chapter.
