Disqualification of Undergraduate Students

Disqualification is determined separately for academic and administrative-academic deficiencies. Students' disqualification status is indicated on their grade report.

Academic Disqualification

Students currently on probation or special probation whose Cal State L.A. or cumulative grade point average reaches the following levels are disqualified:

The Office of the Chancellor has made provision whereby students placed on administrative-academic probation may be disqualified for any of the following reasons:

·The conditions for removal of administrative-academic probation are not met within the period specified.

·Students become subject to academic probation while on administrative-academic probation.

·Students become subject to a new administrative-academic probation period for the same or similar reasons of a previous probationary period, although not currently in such status.

Students  notices of disqualification appear on their grade reports. Students who wish to appeal their disqualification should refer to Immediate Reinstatement below. Disqualified students are required to arrange an exit interview with their academic adviser to establish readmission requirements. Undeclared majors will hold this exit interview with their assigned adviser in the University Academic Advisement Center.

Disqualified students may submit a petition for immediate reinstatement to their college dean or designee (department chair in the Colleges of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology and Natural and Social Sciences) after the exit interview has taken place. The University Academic Advisement Center will rule on petitions for immediate reinstatement for undeclared majors after their exit interview has taken place. Students' approved petitions must be received in Enrollment Services, Administration 146, by the end of the third week of the quarter after disqualification.

Immediate reinstatement may be granted for not more than two successive quarters to students who are pursuing the program in which disqualification was incurred, including an undeclared major. Students who are admitted with a grade point average less than 2.0 on transfer work and whose grades at Cal State L.A. alone are not the basis for disqualification may qualify for immediate reinstatement in additional quarters.

Students who are enrolled but not officially reinstated for the quarter after disqualification should file a request for complete withdrawal and full refund of fees by the end of the third week of the quarter. Official withdrawal and refund application forms are available at Administration 146. Complete withdrawal may also be accomplished by writing to the Registrar's Office. Registration will be cancelled for disqualified students who are enrolled and do not file a withdrawal request; fees are not returned in these cases.

All disqualified students who are reinstated or readmitted are placed on special probation because their grade
point average is less than is allowed for their class level as outlined above.  These students are required to earn better than a C (2.0) grade point average each quarter until their grade point average is increased to a level that is higher than that which would normally cause them to be disqualified according to their class level. Students who withdraw completely from any quarter while on special probation will again be disqualified.