Diploma Requirements 08/09

All students must take courses totaling 15 credits per year. The total number of credits being earned by a student in a given term must not exceed five and two-thirds except as noted on page 2. Any other exception to these regulations must be approved by the faculty.

Each term course passed earns one credit, except for Health and Human Development which carries one-third credit for each term and those courses in applied music which carry one-third or two-thirds credit for each term. Students must take partial-credit applied music courses for three or two consecutive terms respectively to earn one credit.

Diploma candidates must have accumulated credits according to the following table. Credits are awarded only for courses passed at Exeter.

Entering Grade (September)	Credits Required
9	54
10	41
11	27
12	13

Students who fail a term of study in a sequential discipline will receive departmental credit toward breadth of exposure in that field but not diploma credit for that course. This departmental credit will be granted upon successful completion of the next term in that sequence.

Students may repeat a failed course only once.

A student receiving any D grade has the option of repeating the course if it is available in the subsequent term. The repeated course gives load credit, but does not count toward departmental or diploma requirements. Both grades are recorded on the academic transcript and are included in the student’s GPA.

Students must pass all courses (including Senior Projects) taken in the final term of their Senior year.

Attendance on the campus at Exeter for at least three terms during the Upper and Senior years is required.

To receive a diploma, a student must be free from any disciplinary action, official or pending.

The classical diploma is awarded to students who successfully complete Greek 130 and Latin 411 or Latin 430.

Students whose native language is not English may, by arrangement, meet the language requirement with their native language, with the understanding that they will be placed at the proper level in English and continue in English until graduation.

Students who enter the Academy without credit for one year of U. S. history taken in grades 10, 11, or 12 are required by law to take it at Exeter.