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Overview

A Scheduled Academic Year (SAY) Program uses standard academic terms (semesters, trimesters, or quarters) or it has nonstandard terms of substantially equal length (a program is considered to have substantially equal terms if no term in the program is more than two weeks of instructional time longer than any other term in the program).  If using substantially equal nonstandard terms, those terms (including summer) must each be at least nine weeks in length. An additional term, such as a Summer term, can be included as an optional “header” (attached before the start of the SAY) or "trailer” (attached at the end of the SAY) extension to the SAY if the school has established a policy to define this treatment. 

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