<p>Greetings everyone!</p>
<p>I have a quick question. I am looking to attend graduate school and I am wondering about the impact of dropped classes on one's transcript. I'm in my 4th year of college and to date I only have one dropped class on my transcript. However, this semester has been a bit of mess for a variety of reasons, and I am considering dropping one of my classes that I will probably not get a good grade in (less than a B).</p>
<p>My only concern is if it will look bad on my transcript to have two dropped classes. For what it's worth, neither of the classes in question are in the field I want to go into in graduate school</p>
<p>Any input would be appreciated.</p>
<p>If you don’t need that class and you need to drop it in order to do well in major/relevant to graduate school classes, go ahead.</p>
<p>If you have a pretty solid GPA, then a B- isn’t really going to hurt it anyway. Grad school adcoms focus on relevant classes when re-calculating GPA.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply! Admittedly, it probably wouldn’t just be a B-, or BC (the first exam I took did not go well at all). I will probably drop the class, though I do have one additional concern. Dropping this class would be put me at part time status. Like I alluded to in my first post, this semester has been a mess, in large part due to personal and family issues that I obviously won’t get into here, hence why I’m in this odd position where I might drop into part time.</p>
<p>My concern is if this will look bad, having dropped the class and then “devolving” in a sense to part time status. All my previous college semesters have been full time with no exceptions.</p>
<p>edit: FWIW, the other class I mentioned I dropped also came this semester, though much earlier (it was actually just after the deadline to drop without it being on your transcript, which I stupidly missed).</p>
<p>Well, does going PT affect your financial aid package?</p>
<p>Do you have any ECs that you can let go for this semester to allow more time to study in that difficult class? Talk to your adviser if you can.</p>