The only grades recorded on students’ official grade records for courses taken during the first semester of the first year are CR and NC. In the balance of their work at Swarthmore, students may exercise the option to take up to four more courses for credit/no credit by informing the Registrar’s Office within the first 9 weeks of the term in which the course is taken, using the form provided for this purpose. Repeated courses normally may not be taken credit/no credit (see Repeated Courses). Courses only offered as credit/no credit do not count in the four options. For first-year students and sophomores, CR will be recorded for work that would earn a grade of straight D or higher. For juniors and seniors, that is, students in their fifth semester or later, the minimum equivalent letter grade for CR will be straight C.
Instructors are asked to provide the student and the faculty adviser with an evaluation of the student's CR/NC work. The evaluation for first-semester first-year students includes a letter-grade equivalent. For other students, the evaluation may be either a letter-grade equivalent or a comment. Such evaluations are not a part of the student’s official grade record. If available, letter-grade equivalents for first-semester first-year students may be provided to other institutions only if requested by the student and absolutely required by the other institution. Students should save their copies of these evaluations for their records.
