<p>Duke’s policy on Requirements for Continuation as well as End of Term Grades. These policies (particularly the End of Term Grades policy) lay out the escalating scale of consequences for poor academic performance:</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences : Academic requirements](<a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=continuation-requirements]Duke”>http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=continuation-requirements)</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences : Academic requirements](<a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=end-of-term-grades]Duke”>http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=end-of-term-grades)</p>
<p>The second link is much more useful in terms of the cutoffs for punishments. In order for the person to have been dismissed for 1 semester, according to that page, he/she would have had to have earned 3 D’s in a semester.</p>