@rhandco - this is not a sports team or a Broadway show, it is a degree program. The students are paying for an education and to me, the contract, implied or stated, is that if they satisfy the criteria for admission, complete the curriculum according to the standards for grading set forth, and do not violate any university policies, then they are granted a degree. Including potentially arbitrary processes into a degree program seems well beyond the educational model to which I assume universities aspire. Degree programs should not be a zero-sum game.