Fresh Start

Students returning from a period of absence seeking to re-enroll at MSU Denver may request that credit and grades from designated semesters previously attempted at MSU Denver not be calculated in GPA or total earned hours.

If such a “Fresh Start” is approved, all courses from designated semesters will appear on the official academic record but will be annotated to indicate they do not count for academic credit or GPA calculation.

This Fresh Start will be granted once, for a period of at least one semester, with a maximum of 54 credit hours, under the following conditions:

• The student must have not been enrolled at MSU Denver for at least one year (three consecutive semesters, including summer). This policy shall only apply to designated semesters in which the student earned a GPA of 2.0 or below, which have not been applied to the completion of an MSU Denver degree or certificate, and which were attempted prior to the one year absence.
• The student must be in good financial standing with MSU Denver at the time of application.
• The Fresh Start policy may only be used once in a student’s entire MSU Denver career and is only applicable to undergraduate students pursuing a degree at MSU Denver.
• An approved Fresh Start shall not be reversed.
• A notation will be recorded on the student’s official transcript that a Fresh Start was applied.
• Students who are declared as non-degree seeking are not eligible (can be seeking a certificate, be undeclared, etc.).
• The student must re-enroll at MSU Denver and complete a minimum of 6 credit hours with a C+ or higher before the fresh start will be applied to the student’s academic record.
• Fresh start students who re-enter under academic probation status are required to meet with an advisor and discuss pathways to success, including available university resources.
• If a student becomes inactive due to non-enrollment, their timeline for eligibility will start over.