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University of Michigan to Hide Grades for Student Mental Health

The pilot will still give first-year students instructor grades and feedback, but transcripts will show pass or no credit instead of letters.

  • Beginning fall 2027, University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts will remove first-semester letter grades from student transcripts through its First-Semester Grade Covering Pilot Program, intended to help students acclimate to college demands.
  • LSA is the University of Michigan's largest school, with 3,521 first-year students entering in fall 2025, and the program responds to what LSA reports as the mental health crisis unfolding among college-aged individuals.
  • Students will still receive grades and instructor feedback in every course, but transcripts will display only pass or no credit; C- and above counts as passing while anything below receives failing grade status.
  • Michigan joins MIT, which adopted similar grading in 1968, and California Institute of Technology, Wellesley College, and Swarthmore College; Johns Hopkins University ended its comparable policy in 2017 after determining covered grades delayed study skill development.
  • LSA has offered optional pass/fail grading since fall 2024 for electives only, and the mandatory first-semester policy builds on this existing system, which MIT credits with easing student adjustment to increased academic workloads and teaching variations.
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The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Art is adopting a policy to cover freshmen’s first semester grades.

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