Is a student disqualified if their grades are weighted or only if the weighted grades boost the GPA to a 3.0 or make a C- a C?
Each institution is required to recalculate a student’s unweighted cumulative grade point average when he/she has attended a South Dakota high school with a weighted grade point system. There may be instances where a student’s weighted GPA places them at or above the 3.0 requirement, but fail to meet this criteria once campus personnel perform the necessary recalculation. In those situations the student would be permanently ineligible for the Opportunity Scholarship program. To perform this calculation, institutions evaluate each grade on the student transcript, whereby no final grade may fall below a “C” (2.0 grade point) on a 4.0 scale when producing the final unweighted GPA. A final grade of C- on the transcript clearly equals something less than a C, and so would disqualify the student for the scholarship program.
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