Met By Type Code

The Met By Type code defines the type of override or course substitution (referred to as an alteration in the Advising system) and allows institutional requirements to be modified on an individual student-by-student basis.

There are essentially two types of alterations in Advising: waivers and substitutions. Substitutions might be used to indicate that a requirement has been met through a course substitution, or a waiver might indicate that a person's life experience or test results have satisfied a requirement.

When you apply a waiver, you are no longer requiring the student to meet the requirement but there is no academic weight attached, which means there are no credit or hours earned and no grade point average implications.
When you are applying a substitution, you are indicating that a requirement is being met by taking the academic information of another course and using it in place of the original course. In this case, all of the academic weight from the course you are now using fully applies.

With the above information in mind, configuring these codes on the Maintain Requirement Met By Types window is an easy process. You may configure a number of specific Met By Type codes as required by your institution but they will all be variants of a substitution or waiver. When you configure Met By Types, you will determine whether a Met By Type code is a waiver or substitution by the way you set the Reference Required flag.

SUB is a code that might be used to indicate that a requirement has been met through a course substitution, and WAIVE is a code that might indicate that a person's life experience or test results have satisfied a requirement. KEYBRD might be a specific variant of a waiver that you want to track specifically to indicate students who met a requirement by taking and successfully passing a keyboarding test. Although the KEYBRD code was created for more specific tracking and since there is no academic weight applied, it is still a waiver.

If you select the Reference Required checkbox and when you utilize that Met By code in processing an alteration, you will be required to enter a corresponding ARC. That ARC is an essential connection to the student's Course History row for which the academic information is generated. This is done most often when you are configuring a substitution where you want to apply the academic weight of another course.
When you are configuring a waiver, you are indicating that the requirement has been met but there are no hours earned or grade points applied. In this case, you want to be sure that Reference Required is not selected.

Met By Type codes play other roles in applying alterations and so in working with your trainer, you will configure multiple