# Standards for Maintaining Satisfactory Progress It is crucial that students, Advisory Committees, and/or Program Directors monitor the students’ progress throughout the duration of their academic training. Continued financial support is contingent upon maintaining satisfactory progress at all times. Additionally, failure to achieve and maintain satisfactory progress, after counseling is sought from the Program, Advisory Committee and/or Dean of the Graduate School, can result in academic probation and ultimately, dismissal from the Program. MDSAI students maintain satisfactory progress by: * Maintaining matriculation on a full-time basis unless permission granted by the program co-directors * Maintaining a minimum semester GPA of 3.0 * Maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 for the core courses * Meeting with program leadership at least once per term * Actively working with a capstone advisor to develop and complete a capstone project --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://ismms-gs.gitbook.io/graduate-student-handbook/chapter-5/master-of-science-in-biomedical-data-science-and-ai-mdsai/program-requirements/standards-for-maintaining-satisfactory-progress.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.