<p>I'm planning on withdrawing from a course I know I'll probably get a C in. I'd rather just withdraw b/c it's a course required for my major and I want to relearn the stuff.</p>
<p>Does this W look bad for grad school? Our should I overstrain myself the next few days and try to get a B- and not really learn the stuff by cramming?</p>
<p>That's a tough question. I'd say ask at the graduate school or professional school forums. I think it's won't look good, but a C won't either. However, for may fields grades matter far, far less than research potential (as demonstrated primarily in research you've done) and letters of rec. Grades matter hugely for law and med school, but a lot less for academic graduate school in general.</p>
<p>Don't you need a legitimate reason to withdraw from a course required for your major? It's past the drop deadline, so I don't think you can just simply withdraw without withdrawing from your college.</p>
<p>I was considering withdrawing from a class during the summer, but didn't. It looks bad because you have to explain it to the grad schools. (For example, for law schools you have to write out why you withdrew etc.) I'm not sure about other grad schools (business, PhD program, etc.)</p>
<p>Plus, like crumja said, I don't think you can just withdraw from one course at this point in time. Maybe you'd have to withdraw the entire semester?</p>
<p>What about an Incomplete? Does that even show up as an aberration on your transcript?</p>
<p>The "I" gets changed to a different grade when you finish up whatever you're supposed to do to finish the class. If you don't finish off what you're supposed to do, likely this will turn into a "F".</p>
<p>Hmm, Golden, how impossible is the cramming? I mean if you can pull an all-nighter and pull it off, then by all means pull an all-nighter. It's better than a withdrawal. </p>
<p>Also can you incomplete for one course yet complete the others? or do you have to I the whole semester?</p>
<p>Yea, incompletes work differently. You have to be passing the course but have something happen (car accident, family emergency, etc.) that you can't control (oversleeping will get you an F). Your grade is frozen until you finish the work (whatever you were missing); then that part of your grade is replaced. If you had a B going into the final and took an incomplete, whatever you get next sem's final will be added onto the original B.</p>
<p>Some "strategies I've seen people do" (No way I'm advocating these)
* Get into a car accident on purpose right before the final
* Purposely fail either by not taking the final or by requesting an F from the prof and retaking to "cover up" the F (not sure how effective this is; it's been known to backfire for some students who got C- without the final lol)</p>
<p>LOL @ purposely getting into a car crash. I never thought anyone would seriously do that.</p>
<p>The second one doesn't work very well because even though the new grade is in the GPA, the F still shows up on ur transcript.</p>
<p>As far as the incomplete, if you do that, is there any way that someone reading your transcript can tell that u got the grade that way instead of hte normal way?</p>
<p>YES. The transcript records everything. Nothing will ever get erased, only a line will be marked through it.</p>