United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 17-1055 AYESHA KHAN, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v. MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, Defendant-Appellee. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 1:14-CV-09539 — John Robert Blakey, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED NOVEMBER 6, 2017 — DECIDED JANUARY 16, 2018 ____________________

Before BAUER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges. ROVNER, Circuit Judge. Ayesha Khan struggled academi- cally in medical school from the outset. She failed three of her courses in her first year of medical school at The Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University. Ordinarily, under the school policy, this would permit the school administrators to dismiss her from the program. They opted not to do so. Instead, they gave Khan a sec