<p>Obviously, I would think dropping before the fourth week would be better, but is having a "W" on your transcript considered "terrible" especially when you are applying for grad school?</p>
<p>"A “W” doesn't affect your GPA and you will not be awarded units for the class you drop. A “W” will stay on your transcript however even if you repeat the course, but is generally not a negative thing on your record unless you have many courses that have been dropped with a “W.”"
-quoting revelle faqs @ [url=<a href="http://revelle.ucsd.edu/aa/ur/revellefaq.html%5Drevellefaq%5B/url">http://revelle.ucsd.edu/aa/ur/revellefaq.html]revellefaq[/url</a>]</p>
<p>just curious which course were you thinking about.</p>
<p>i'm thinking of dropping MATH 20C.
I just found out my midterm score today and let's just say it would still be an F even if it gets curved down to the average score, which was a 58.3..... -_-</p>
<p>W is 100x better than failing. Do it</p>
<p>...but it's still important to note that even failing a class won't keep you away from grad school. as long as you have enough positive notes, they'll overlook a few hiccups here and there.</p>
<p>(been there, done that)</p>
<p>I sincerely doubt you've failed a class astrina.</p>
<p>haha, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I did fail a class -- LIGN 7, the last GE keeping me from graduating, senior year. kept me around for another quarter too :P</p>
<p>i've also gotten a slew of C's, some in kinda-relevant-to-my-major classes, but i'm thankful that those were overlooked!</p>
<p>Don't withdraw till the last minute. Who's your professor? Horton?</p>
<p>don't most math classes let you drop the first mid term in favor of a different grading scale?</p>
<p>^ I wouldn't advise relying on that... Usually the material just gets more difficult wouldn't you think?... Plus all of the people under the curve drop out as the year goes on so you'll have less people to bring down the curve</p>
<p>i would... thats how the majority of the grades are done... the majority of people do well on their finals and that ends up boosting their grades. I'd rather have the 60% final scale applied to me because that means i did well on the final than the 40% scale that says my final scores were worse than my midterms.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the person. Im talking about the people who want to slack and then rely on the final to shine in the class.</p>
<p>I'm in quite a dilemma... </p>
<p>Im taking VIS1 pass/no pass and The professor said 3 absences results with an F in the class. I am almost positive he was talking about missing lectures because he explained why 3 absences results in an F (there are only 10 lectures in the quarter and if you miss 3 its like missing a 1/3 of the class.) I have 3 absences total, 1 from lecture 2 from studio. My T.A. hasnt mentioned anything to me yet but I emailed her twice today awaiting her response.</p>
<p>If worse comes to worse, should I just drop the class and take a W if nothing goes right? According to this thread it shouldn't look too bad... Also considering I wont be getting any more W's since I am doing well in my classes that actually count towards my major.</p>
<p>is "W' punitive in UCSD?
as in, will it be converted to 0 on the 4.0 scale when you're applying to grad school?</p>
<p>Having a W or two isn't that bad. It is when you have lots of them that Ws become a problem. Grad schools might ask you to explain why you got a W in a certain course, but having one of two won't keep you from getting into the door or acceptance. Ws do not get calculated in your GPA as a 0 or F. They just appear on your transcript. I'm not sure about other grad schools, but I know AMCAS for med schools does not calculate W as a 0 in your GPA either.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have info on other grad schools (law school?) regarding whether UCSD's W's are punitive or not? 20 units has gotten the best of me this quarter, and a nonpunitive W sounds so much better than a C and will save a lot of stress. Punitive on the other hand would be deadly.</p>
<p>well ... surely NP's are worse than C's, right? still made it into grad school (ivy league, top 10 program) in one piece :)</p>
<p>if you know for sure that you will probably fail the class, then drop the class because a "W" is definitely better than a "F"</p>
<p>^^ Thats what I'm trying to figure out, some universities show their W's as punitive when sending transcripts to grad schools, meaning the W would be the same thing as an F and would go down as a 0.0 on your GPA. That said, I'm pretty sure UCSD is nonpunitive.</p>