<p>I'm a transfer student going into my sophmore yr.at a new college I am trying to get my 1st semester dropped. According to the college I attended they are telling me that it is illegal to drop a semester. Can anyone tell me if this is possible to drop a semester?</p>
<p>What do you mean, "drop a semester"? Are you asking for a leave of absence in the future, or are you asking if you can simply "erase" a semester that you've already completed?</p>
<p>No school is going to let you erase a semester that you already have final grades in. No matter the circumstances.</p>
<p>You cannot drop a semester. Sometimes schools will let you retake a class and have the new grade included in the GPA though I think the old grade will be shown on the transcript though not neccessarily included in the GPA.</p>
<p>Every course (pass, fail, drop) that you take at an accredited college or university in the US will be recorded somehow, and for the rest of your life whenever you apply to any accredited college or university in the US, you will have to submit an official copy of that transcript. If you forget to send them all, they will ask you for them. I just had to track down two different transcripts for summer courses and a community college class that I took for fun almost 30 years ago because my current graduate program requires complete documentation of ALL post-high school education. </p>
<p>Now, what exactly that new college/university will make of those old bad grades is up to them. Usually grades below a C won't transfer, so you will have to re-take the failed class anyway at your new university if you need it for your program. Many universities don't record the grades of transfered coursework so those grades (even if they are really good) don't even factor into your GPA, but you need to find out your new university's rules about this, because some will include them in your GPA.</p>
<p>If you do well at the new place, ultimately the bad grades at the old place won't matter at all - sort of the way HS grades don't matter after a couple years of college. No one will care. At the most they'll say something like, "Looks like you had a really rough start at University1, but you really got your act together at University2. It's great to see when students make that kind of improvement."</p>
<p>my school offers academic renewal but the grades still appear on your transcript, they're just not factored into your gpa. you can do the same thing though by retaking the classes.</p>