One of my friends looked at my platform recently and had a question that I feel like a lot of you might have, what exactly is academic redemption? Academic Redemption is something that many Universities around the countries have that allows students to make up for a bad grade. It is basically a second chance. At most schools that have an academic redemption policy, you can only use the policy once. Academic redemption allows you to retake a class that you got a bad grade in (a D or below) and instead of having to deal with the original grade ruining your GPA, your original grade and the grade from taking the class a second time are averaged together and the average is what would count towards your GPA.