Grade Point Average

All grades earned on non-Carleton off-campus study programs are entered on your transcript, but are not computed into your GPA. However, graduate schools or employers may use all your grades, including those earned off-campus, to determine your GPA for their own purposes.

Satisfactory/Credit/No Credit (S/CR/NC Option) S/CR/NC policies apply to off-campus studies including the limit of 30 S/CR/NC credits used during your four years at Carleton. In a Carleton seminar, the seminar director will distribute S/CR/NC cards at the beginning of the seminar and collect them at the end, without looking at your decision, to submit to the registrar.

To enroll for S/CR/NC credits in a NON-Carleton program you must pick up a S/CR/NC card in the registrar’s office prior to departure and sign your intent to S/CR/NC a particular course. You must return that card, with your second signature declaring that you did S/CR/NC the course, no later than the last day of classes of your off-campus study program. Grades are sent from the sponsoring institution and the Registrar converts the grade (A+ through C– = S, D+, D or D– = CR, F = NC) on your transcript.

If an off-campus course is offered only satisfactory/no credit, you must provide documentation to the Registrar. For programs co-sponsored by Carleton (ACM, HECUA, AKP, ISLE, DIS, etc.) this information is on file. For all other non-Carleton programs, you must submit a program brochure or letter indicating that the course is not offered for a letter grade to the Registrar’s office. The registrar will not accept S/CR/NC grades from off-campus study for credit unless you have filed the S/CR/NC form or have proof that the sponsoring institution does not offer the course for grades.

Make sure Carleton gets your grades

You are responsible for making sure that an official transcript of your off-campus studies is sent to Carleton upon completion of the program. Grades from programs co-sponsored by Carleton (ACM, HECUA, DIS, AKP, and ISLE) are sent by the program director or professor. For all other non-Carleton programs, you must request the transcript in writing before you leave the program and the country.