Does Your School Have Grade Forgiveness?

For high achievers, your GPA means everything. If it does, you need to work for it.

The Daily Herald reports that a DePaul University student is suing the school because he had opted in for “grade forgiveness,” which means that a grade can be ignored and not calculated in a final GPA. Since once grade forgiveness kicked in and he had a 3.588 GPA (where a 3.5 would give a student “honors” status) but he was not designated as an honors student, he is taking the case to court to rectify the situation.

Do you think the student is right? Do you think grade forgiveness is worth the trouble?