{"id":65143,"date":"2015-12-21T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=65143"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:56:55","slug":"policy-on-missing-grades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/policy-on-missing-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Effective fall 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The designation of \u201cMG\u201d indicates an unresolved registration status. \u201cMG\u201d is assigned by faculty to students who never attended the course or who stopped attending the course before the last day to drop a standard class without a W grade (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/\">Office of the Registrar\u2019s website<\/a> for date). \u201cMG\u201d should be used rarely.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members entering an \u201cMG\u201d must include in the \u201cComments\u201d the reason for the grade and give the last known date the student attended the course.<\/p>\n<p>Note: For students who stopped attending a course after the last day to drop a standard class without a W, faculty must submit a letter grade or an I. An I grade can only be used if the faculty member and student have discussed a plan for completing course requirements and filled out and submitted an \u201cIncomplete Form.\u201d Refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/incomplete-coursework\/\">policy on \u201cIncomplete\u201d grades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students will not be permitted to graduate with an &#8220;MG&#8221; in a non-PDP (Physical Development Program) course. Undergraduate students, working with their school\/college student service or advising office, and graduate students, working with their respective graduate directors or associate deans, must resolve &#8220;MGs&#8221; in all non-PDP courses before the last day of classes of the following term (spring for fall courses, fall for spring and summer courses) or before graduation, whichever is earlier. An unresolved &#8220;MG&#8221; in a non-PDP course will convert to an F after that deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Students <strong>are<\/strong> permitted to graduate with an &#8220;MG&#8221; in a PDP course on their transcripts; however, an \u201cMG\u201d in a PDP course being used to fulfill the requirements of a degree program (e.g., the Dance minor) must be resolved as above. Students should be aware that &#8220;MG&#8221; on the transcript is not desirable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective fall 2016 The designation of \u201cMG\u201d indicates an unresolved registration status. \u201cMG\u201d is assigned by faculty to students who never attended the course or who stopped attending the course before the last day to drop a standard class without a W grade (see the Office of the Registrar\u2019s website for date). \u201cMG\u201d should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4502,"featured_media":0,"parent":36244,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95638,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65143\/revisions\/95638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}