<p>Well, I for one will concede that in the particular case you described, that’s quite unfair. Its not right to kick someone out of the university for one bad semester. </p>
<p>At my university, students whose cumulative GPA falls below 2.0 must earn a GPA of at least 2.5 in all subsequent quarters while they are on “probation”. So they are not required to get their cumulative GPA above 2.0 immediately. I think this is fairly reasonable.</p>
<p>The question is: is what you describe an engineering problem, or a Berkeley problem?</p>