What courses count toward the GPA requirement?
• Entrance Requirements: For entrance into the program, the grade point average is obtained via your ESU courses only (both in the major and outside the major), unless you have more than 12 hours of coursework taken elsewhere. In that case, the combined average will be used. Note: If you already hold an advanced degree, you don’t need to include your undergraduate GPA in the entrance requirement (see Memorandum 07). Note: It used to be that if you held an emergency permit, you could take up to nine credits on a provisional basis and then use those credits for the GPA requirement (see Memorandum 06, dated Nov 14, 2002) but it now appears that PA is no longer issuing emergency certificates (Sep 2010). Note: Students may appeal to request the use or non-use of transfer courses to be used in calculating the QPA for admission, but if they are used, all courses taken at other institutions must be used, not only selected ones. • Exit Requirements: For exit from the program, the ESU average (a
