GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA) ISSUES
As a business major, you must have a 2.50 combined cumulative grade point average to take lower division business courses (ACCOUNT 244, ACCOUNT 249, ACCOUNT 341, ACCOUNT 342, ECON 245, & ITBE 280).
"Combined cumulative grade point average" refers to the fact that the College of Business and Economics uses transfer grades in combination with Whitewater grades to determine eligibility for courses and graduation.
After admission to the College of Business and Economics, you must maintain at least a 2.50 combined cumulative gpa to take business courses, and you must have a 2.50 combined cumulative gpa overall, in all business courses, and in your major to graduate.
HOW TO FIGURE YOUR GPA:
Every time you complete a course, the grade you earn affects your grade point average. Every unit of A is assigned 4 honor points, a B gets 3 honor points, a C gets 2, a D gets 1 and an F gets 0. If you earn a
3-unit B, you earn 9 honor points (3 units X 3 honor points). If you add all of your honor points and divide by the number of units (using only those units which were assigned grades), the result will be your
cumulative gpa.
An example:
| Course | Credits | Grade | Honor Points |
| GENED 110 World of the Arts | 3 | A | 12 |
| GENED 140 Global Perspectives | 3 | B | 9 |
| PEGNRL 192 Personal Health and Fitness | 1 | C | 2 |
| ENGLISH 102 Freshman English | 3 | C | 6 |
| MATH 143 Finite Math | 3 | B | 9 |
| Totals | 13 | 38 |
Semester GPA: 38/13=2.92 (Do not round up!)
COURSE REPEAT POLICY:
REPEATING COURSES FOR GRADE REPLACEMENT: Students may repeat a limited number of courses in which they earned a grade of D,F, or NC in order to have those grades replaced. Students may not repeat for credit or grade replacement any course in which they earned a grade of C, S, or higher (see REPEAT FOR NO CREDIT explanation below). During their undergraduate career at UW-Whitewater, students are limited to repeating no more than 5 separate courses, including repeats of transfer courses, for grade replacement (developmental English and math courses are not included in this total). Once the repeat limit has been met, additional attempted repeats will not count toward earned credit or factor into grade point average calculation (NC-No Credit Earned), unless the student has successfully appealed to repeat more than 5 courses. To request permission to repeat any more than 5 courses for grade replacement, the student must appeal to the Admissions and Academic Standards Committee for approval. The repeat regulation applies to any courses for which a student receives a grade beginning with the Fall Term 2000 and any term thereafter including Summer and Winterim.
(Please refer to the Undergradate Catalog for more details).
If you repeat a course in which you earned a C or better, the new grade will not replace the previous grade in your gpa. Your record will reflect that you took the course for "No Credit" the second time and a grade will be
posted, but not figured into your gpa. A pre-business major may want to repeat Cs for the formula.