friendlyghost

I go to the UofA, who did this after we switched online halfway through the semester (thanks covid). Pretty much everyone agreed pass/fail was necessary, but there was a lot of debate on whether it should be mandatory or left to student choice. In the end, the powers that be made it mandatory for every student and every class. Then they proposed this bizarre idea of letting professors write a letter detailing our class ranks, but that never fully materialized. I read the application info for UofA's program, and it seems like winter 2020 counts towards the last 20 courses, but gpa is only calculated on the graded stuff (basically situation #1 in my orginal comment). I guess they realized the kind of predicament they created. It's too bad this policy isn't nation-wide.

So I'm effectively being punished for something out of my control, how delightful. ??? Anyways, thanks for the info. I think I understand your explanation, but I'm gonna throw some hypothetical numbers out there just to confirm. Say I reach the boundary, and I only have 17 courses. So they're gonna take the average of the preceding school year, let's just say it's a 3.0. Then they're gonna use 3.0 as the grade for all 3 missing classes?

Hey there, I've got yet another ORPAS question. Does anyone have any know how they treat pass/fail courses? For winter 2020 my school instituted mandatory pass/fail for all students. So 5 of my last 20 courses have no grade. Are they gonna calculate my sGPA with 15 courses instead? Or are they gonna get the 5 classes from a previous semester? I struggled earlier in my degree, and it would be disastrous if they went back another semester.