Withdrawing a class Options

[madgamer]

Thread can be closed.Thanks guys.

[Just_Dream]

ACTUALLY, it depends on the stardards of the college. For my college (UCSD), if you have a few withdraws, it's okay -- but I mean that culmulatively. If you have 1 withdraw maybe once a year (ours is on the quarter system), that's totally fine. But it DOES appear on your transcript though. I mean this in the sense that one withdraws AFTER the deadline, in which cause it WILL SAY that you took the class, but withdrew from the class. People are able to withdraw with a W on the transcript (NOT getting an F) until finals at UCSD. If they don't widthdraw before like some tuesday on the 10th week (last week of school), then they will receive whatever grade they get at the end of the quarter, meaning they would have to take the final to even consider passing. So yea there's two deadlines. One to actually DROP the class (usually within 2 weeks since classes are 10 weeks long on our quarter system) which doesn't appear on the transcript or anything, and another deadline to WITHDRAW (W) which does appear on the transcript.

At our college, if you have too many withdraws, it will look bad if you consider graduate school because administrations will consider it as a way students are tryng to skip failing or something. It DOES NOT affect your cumulative GPA at the end of the year -- keep that in mind. As others have mentioned, you do lose those units you withdraw from.