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Academic Probation and Suspension

Lake-Sumter Community College students who encounter the message “Academic Standing prohibits Registration” when trying to register in LOIS now has academic status that has fallen into one of three categories: Probation, Continued Probation, or Suspension.

The college initiates these categories, in an effort to help if a student fails to meet the standards of academic progress.

Once your status changes to Academic Probation or Suspension, you will be required to meet in person with an Academic Advisor before registering each semester you are on probation in order to devise and monitor a plan of action to assist you in your efforts to restore your GPA to good standing.  Remember, you may need more than one semester to restore your grade point average to good standing.

Frequently asked questions about probation and suspension

Strategies to repair your grade point average

Lake-Sumter Community College students Grade Point Average (GPA), including transfer grades will be used to determine academic progress.

• Good Standing, An all college GPA of at least 2.0 with seven or more credits attempted.
• Probation, Students who have attempted seven (7) or more college credits with less than a 2.0 all college GPA (excluding college preparatory courses)
• Continued Probation, Continued Probation will occur when the student earns a minimum 2.0 term GPA and the all college GPA remains below a 2.0.
• Suspension, students will progress to suspension for one semester if the term and all college GPA fall below a 2.0.  Students who return after suspension will be placed on continued probation. Students suspended again will be academically dismissed for a period of one calendar you if the all college

Academic Advising Availability

Please call to set up an appointment with an advisor:

(352) 365-3574 Leesburg Campus
(352) 243-5722 South Lake Campus
(352) 568-0001 Sumter Campus

If you need to schedule an appointment after business hours, e-mail the Advising Office at Advising@lscc.edu