Hi there I was hoping for some advice regarding late withdrawals.? I am in my 4 the year and have a tough year due to many factors. I was forced to
late withdraw 2 courses last semester and now I am at the risk of getting a. Low mark in an elective course which will bring down a GPA I am trying to build.I will be applying for withdrawal without penalty but am not sure if that will be granted. I will be coming back an extra semester and then plan on applying to post grad so I’m wondering how bad will a third LWD look on my transcript! Is it worth it? Such a hard decision! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Yo!
Will a third LWD look bad on your transcript for grad school? Okay. Well. See, my opinion is that any LWD would look back on your transcript for grad school. Yeah, sometimes there are some inescapable circumstances that get in the way of, you know, doing well, but the fact that it’s happened multiple times reflects quite poorly on things like your work ethic and deductive reasoning. If you knew you were doing poorly in a course — especially an elective — you could have made it CR/NCR for example. So if you do apply to grad schools, you should definitely include a little tidbit explaining all the LWDs of this year.
But since you’re coming back for another semester, there’s no harm in appealing to your registrar for a LWD and taking something else. 🙂 It would probably be the better option. And again, since it’s just an elective, you can probably just make it a CR/NCR and avoid hurting your CGPA at all.
Cheers!
aska
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hey thanks for your reply! Just wondering, if I drop that elective, and then retake it later, will it erase the LWD from my transcript? ( unfortunately I had gotten the CR/NCR deadline mixed up so its too late for that).
aska
Nope! Essentially, that’s the “punishment” of a LWD — it’s forever.
So if you retake the course, your transcript will have it there with first a LWD and then second, with either a grade or a CR.