<p>I am currently taking a rigorous honors philosophy course with a very rigorous professor. The entire course is made up of three test grades and that is it. I recently took a test and feel as if I performed badly on it because of the time constraint of the test. Thus, I wish to drop it. At my university, when you drop a course you are assigned one of two grades. You are assigned either a WP(Passing at the time of drop) or a WF(Failing at the time of drop). I spoke with my professor and he assured me that he would give me a WP no matter my grade on the test. Thus, I was wondering how bad would it look to medical schools if I drop one course throughout my college career. Also, would it be better if I retook the same philosophy course except regular instead of honors and made an A in it. I know I can make an A in the regular class because it is much easier. Would medical schools then overlook the previous drop of the honors class? Any feedback appreciated from personal experiences or experiences of a friend?</p>
<p>One W will generally not hurt your chances for admission to medical school. A WP has no effect of your AMCAS GPA.</p>
<p>The only issue that might come up is if, as a result of the W, you have an underload (less than full time status). Less than full time status can also have a negative effect on your financial aid.</p>
<p>Medical schools will not care if retake the philosophy class or not. (It’s not a required class.)</p>
<p>Not sure I understand everything. If you don’t want to take honors but want to take regular, withdraw from honors and take regular. I wouldn’t take honors and then take regular later.</p>
<p>Did you actually check that regular is easier than Honors. It was not the case in many of D’s classes, since Honors are much smaller classes and profs accessiblity is much greater. Many at her school indicated that they prefere Honors because of the size of the class.
But anyway, do you need the philosophy class for your major? Not sure if you are doing poorely in Honors (by your own assessment), you will do much better in regular class. I would not rely on that.</p>