Extenuating circumstances

[capri95]

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[amt6500]

From what I understand, the extenuating circumstances can be used to explain why a certain situation occurred but it won't impact ranking scores. I might be completely wrong here which is very likely. The person I know that used this measure was not full time during a year of his studies due to illness but he remained eligible for admission due to the circumstances. He got in last year despite having taken 4.5 years instead of 3 for his degree which was used as basis for his admission.

[capri95]

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[amt6500]

Maybe a specific class is excluded from GPA calculation?