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Accreditation: Macalester College is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Course Credit:
· Prior to Fall 1963, credits were based on semester hours and the college used the following grade point system: A=3, B=2, C=1, D=0, F=0.
· Fall 1963 to Fall 1993, each course unit was the equivalent of 4 semester credits or 6 quarter credits.
· Effective Fall 1993, Macalester converted to the semester credit system.

Grade	Grade Points	Grade	Grade Points
A	4.0	S (C- or better)	–
A-	3.7	D (S/D/NC option)	–
B+	3.3	NC (S/D/NC option)	–
B	3.0	I (incomplete)	–
B-	2.7	W (withdrawal)	–
C+	2.3	NR (not reported)	–
C	2.0	IP (in progress)	–
C-	1.7
D+	1.3
D	1.0
D-	0.7
NC	0.0

Course Numbers: Beginning fall 2003, a new course numbers system is in effect:

1963-Summer 2003 Effective Fall 2003

• Undergraduate credit courses 1 – 99 100 – 649
• Undergraduate non-credit courses* 100 – 399 1 – 99
  Completion of the appropriate sequence of these courses will earn credit.
• Graduate level courses 400 – 599 650 – 699

Miscellaneous: Other course designations appearing in the transcript are:

AU – Augsburg College course

HA – Hamline University course

SC – St. Catherine University course

ST – University of St. Thomas course

MCAD – Minneapolis College of Art and Design course

UM – University of Minnesota course

• Grades for courses transferred to Macalester, and for some Macalester Approved Study Away Programs, are not included in the cumulative grade point average computation.
• Macalester College does not compute a rank in class.