Professional & Graduate Programs

Deceleration is a defined status with its own procedure. What it costs in aid, timing and reporting, when it is a deferred dismissal in disguise, and how to request one.

Repeating a year is a decision, not an outcome. It has an appeal window, a price, and terms that are negotiable — and sometimes it is a dismissal with a twelve-month fuse.

Promotions and progress committees decide advancement in medical, nursing, dental, PA and pharmacy programs, with far fewer protections than a conduct hearing.

Remediation is an offer, usually with a written agreement that narrows what happens the next time something goes wrong. Its terms are negotiable more often than students believe, and never after you sign.

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, and the regulations state expressly that it does not include honest error or differences of opinion. That clause is the one most students never invoke.

A medical school dismissal follows you into the Match through your MSPE and ERAS disclosures, and it can surface again at the licensing board. The promotions committee is where the outcome is decided.

Nursing programs dismiss students faster, and on thinner records, than almost any other field. A single failed clinical, a medication-error write-up, or one exit-exam score below a cutoff can end a program career.

Most law school dismissals are automatic once the GPA falls below the minimum. The appeal is not about whether you deserve another chance; it is about whether the number is right and the rule was applied as written.

Pharmacy, dental, PA and therapy programs dismiss students for different reasons and on different standards. Start with the page for your program.

Graduate dismissals often turn on a relationship rather than a grade, which is precisely why the program handbook and the committee record usually decide them.