The requirements for the Dean’s List at my college is a minimum gpa of 3.5 and at least 12 credit hours, both of which I met. My GPA is a little over 3.5 and I have 15 credit hours. Yet, when I checked the Dean’s List, my name wasn’t there? Why is this? Is there anything I can do or should I drop it?
You could ask whoever makes up the Dean’s List.
Did you have a disciplinary write up? That may affect eligibility.
I guess I could but I’m afraid it may be a bit too petty. And I do not have a disciplinary write up.
Correcting an oversight like that isn’t petty. Just ask. If there are other criteria you don’t know about, you’ll find out.
Just to be sure, Google your college’s Dean’s List requirements and check to make sure there isn’t some requirement you didn’t meet. Did you pass all your courses with at least a C? Did you make sure the 3.5 was for this term and not cumulative? Do you go by a nickname and is it possible you are listed by another name? Do you have any unpaid fees? Just thinking of things which may have affected it.
Finally, it’s not petty to correct such an error, and you should definitely do so if you’ve met all the requirements.
just curious… i dont mean to sound rude, im genuinely curious, but why does it matter? what does being on the dean’s list do?
Not to speak for OP, but being on the Dean’s List matters to me because I view it as a recognition of my achievements for that term. Does it matter much on a resumé? No, not really, especially not if it already includes a cumulative GPA.
My school’s cutoff is 3.75, so it can serve as a bit of external motivation for pushing a B to an A, despite being generally internally motivated otherwise.
You can put it on your resume or grad school apps. Politely ask, probably the registrar. You might be missing some requirement, but it can’t hurt to ask.
It could be that your final grades for spring were not all posted when the school ran the report for the Dean’s List. Just call the Registrar. Ask. You deserve the listing if you met the criteria.
This is not a personal issue at all. Nobody will feel badly that a student asked about why he/she was not listed as having made Dean’s list. Simply send an email to the register saying something like: “I thought that the criteria for making Dean’s list is X, y and z. I have X, Y and Z yet was not listed. Could you let me know if there is a criteria for Dean’s list that I did not meet. If I have met criteria, could you let me know how I can be added to the list?”
You do need to find the full, official definition. At my kids’ college, it was phrased as a “minimum” x.x, but then other conditions set the actual bar (based on the top X percent of the class the past Y years. a minimum number of letter grades, etc.)
This issue goes beyond just a college Dean’s List.
If you are clearly & technically entitled to something, and it’s important to you, then you need to learn to SPEAK UP FOR YOURSELF and protect your interests. If you continue on this passive path, people will walk all over you in career & life.
It is not petty. I agree with GMTplus7. Part of growing up is learning how to be appropriately assertive.
OP, definitely look into this.
Either they will admit they made a mistake and correct it or they will let you know that there was another requirement that you did not meet.
My son achieved a 3.64 his first semester which should have meant he was on the Deans list (3.5 cut-off). However because he was an Undecided major at the time he was not qualified. Go figure…