<p>I'm taking a computer science class right now and I'm not really feeling it, plus it's adding to an already heavy workload, so I'm considering dropping it. However, the last day to drop without a W was last week, so I'm not sure what to do.</p>
<p>As long as you don’t have a bunch of them i.e. like one every semester you should be fine. A couple throughout your college career are understandable.</p>
<p>Some schools limit the amount of W’s you can have, so watch out for that. My school limits you to 3 W’s in your first two years and 2 W’s in your second two years. I only ever used two though, and both in the first two years.</p>
<p>I doubt employers are looking at your resume that closely. Unless there’s something suspicious like 20 W’s on your transcript then it’s fine.</p>
<p>Depending, your school may also qualify the W as a WF (failing) or WP (passing). Obviously, the latter is less harmful, and if you’re only a couple weeks into the class, there seems to be no reason why the prof wouldn’t be willing to mark it that way.</p>
<p>Usually the WF/WP applies if you drop late in the semester. In the first weeks, it will usually be a plain W.</p>
<p>Two instances where W’s can be forgotten about (obviously WPass and not WFails) </p>
<p>1) Dropping out mid-semester and getting all W’s, but receiving no W’s in other semesters. This typically indicates some type of emergency happened.
<em>or</em>
2) Having less than (or equal to!) two W’s total. Because people make mistakes and get in over their hands. But it shouldn’t be a repeated thing.</p>
<p>And more lenient if you’re talking about getting jobs where they barely look over your transcript. I’m more talking about grad schools.</p>
<p>I was accepted to a number of grad schools despite an ungodly number of Ws. They aren’t an insurmountable scarlet letter or anything.</p>
<p>First you need to tell us what you are majoring in and what your career goals are so we can give you the most truthful answer that we can.</p>
<p>Hi.
I go to U of M
I plan to be an engineer major, and I got into an introductory engineering class (gaming), so it had programming in it. I had no prior programming experience, thus, I didn’t understand any of the assignments. I attended numerous office hours, but that didn’t help much.
I dropped it on the last day to drop it, so I don’t have a W for that class, but I joined a psychology class. And now, the psychology professor is asking me to drop his class because I came in way too late.
so I’ll be receiving a W for psychology.
I’m slightly freaking out about this W, but I really can’t do anything about it.
I was supposed to get 15 credits this semester, but it’ll have dropped down to 11, but I’ll be joining a mini course that starts after thanksgiving to boost me to 12 credits (I need at least 12 credits for my financial aid to stay steady).</p>
<p>So the W doesn’t matter much, correct?
I plan on taking the engineering course next semester and some classes at a community college over the summer to get credit…</p>
<p>A W is better than an F.</p>
<p>@ GPeaceTea, correct, one W will not have any negative effects. People with many Ws may have to explain their circumstances, however.</p>
<p>Okay thank you.
So even if I’m a little behind on credits, it won’t matter as long as I get them over the summer at aCommunity college, etc?</p>
<p>Regarding the summer courses, ask the registrar’s office whether summer classes at a community college will officially count.</p>