Rising Juniors (including transfer student-athletes):
By the beginning of the junior year (fifth and sixth semesters), a student must be in a degree program, have satisfied forty (40) percent of degree requirements, achieved a minimum cumulative grade-point-average of 2.00, earned a minimum of one and one half (1.5) course units for the prior full-time semester (not summer term) and the student’s transcript must display an average of four (4) course units as having been awarded for each full-time semester of Penn enrollment. (A rising junior (unless a transfer student-athlete) must have a minimum of sixteen (16) awarded course units on his or her transcript) with a minimum of six (6) awarded course units being for work completed in the two most recently completed full-time semesters (including summer sessions). A minimum of four and one half (4.5) of these six course units must be from academic course work completed in the prior two full-time semesters (not including summer) with the additional one and one half (1.5) course units coming from academic work completed in the prior two full-time semesters and/or summer (including course units awarded for transfer credit), all of which must be displayed on the student’s transcript at the time of the eligibility evaluation.
This means if you are a junior, to be academically eligible you must:
· Be a full-time student, and
· Be in a degree program (have an approved major, if applicable), and
· Have an official academic worksheet, and
· Have completed 40% of the requirements for your specific Penn degree, and
· Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00, and
· Have a minimum of 16 course units (on transcript at time of eligibility evaluation),
o A minimum of 6 course units awarded must be for academic work completed in the prior two full-time semesters and/or previous summer sessions).
o A minimum of 4.5 course units awarded, must be for academic work completed in the prior two full-time semesters (excluding summer sessions),
o A minimum of 1.5 course units must be for academic work completed in the previous full-time semester (excluding summer sessions),
New transfer students (matriculating at Penn for first time), to be academically eligible you must:
· Be a full-time student, and
· Be in a degree program (have an approved major, if applicable), and
· Have an official academic worksheet, and
· Have completed 40% of the requirements for your Penn degree
o Thus, you will be required to have a sufficient number of awarded Penn and/or transfer credit on your transcript at the time of the eligibility review to satisfy the 40% percentage of degree requirement.
Provisional Eligibility –After four full-time semesters.
If by the beginning of the fifth full-time semester a student-athlete satisfies all of the above requirements except for the cumulative GPA of at least 2.00 and/or sixteen (16) awarded course units on transcript, the student-athlete may be considered for provisional eligibility.
· Minimum cumulative GPA for provisional eligibility consideration is 1.90.
· Minimum total number of awarded course unit credit is 14 CUs.
To be considered for provisional eligibility a student-athlete shall meet with the school eligibility officer to discuss the academic deficiency and to develop an Academic Enhancement Plan (AEP) which shall record the plan for academic improvement and agreed upon conditions of provisional eligibility between the student-athlete and the school. The student-athlete shall then review the AEP with the Assistant Director of Athletics for Academic Services who may add additional stipulations. Following these two meetings, the student-athlete shall acquire signatures (in sequence) endorsing the AEP from the sport’s head coach and DRIA compliance coordinator.
