<p>I'm having trouble in engineering stats and looks bad I received a 52 on my last exam. On top im taking diff eq and that's going south due to spending a lot of time with statistics.I wanted wats better get a W ot fail the class. I'm leaning toward the W however how will this effect me in looking toward grad school or even medical school.</p>
<p>they will both look pretty bad. the W is usually better though, and grad schools/med school will likely give you an opportunity to explain why you withdrew. i’d rather tell them it was interfering with my other class than have them assume that i just did poorly, though they aren’t exactly dichotomous.</p>
<p>i would (and have) taken the W.</p>
<p>i think i will take a W n hope its my only one. wat kills me is thats its my first two classes at uf andmy fall schedule for the fall isnt prtetty calc3,organic and physical chem, materials and energy balance.</p>
<p>i would sit down and look carefully at why you’re really doing poorly in that class, or how you could improve (even more studying, most likely) and do what you can to correct those issues in the fall. i think engineering stats can really trip some people up in ways that other difficult classes don’t, so it could be an anomaly, but you’d be stupid to assume that it was.</p>
<p>i’d even go so far as to soften up the fall semester during drop add. your schedule is unnecessarily rough, and if you end up not clicking during the fall, i guarantee that all of those classes will interfere with the others.</p>
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<p>I plan on taking Material and Energy/ Physical Chem/ Organic in the fall of next year… Let me know how you’re doing in fall? :)</p>
<p>Not trying to be a dick, but this is probably when you should reconsider your major.</p>
<p>i disagree about reconsidering the major. engineering stats is way over the top as far as basic statistics should go.</p>
<p>Technically I’m not a chemical engineer major I’m a transfer for chemistry. That being said I took calc ,physics,chem,bio altogether and didn’t break a sweat however there’s is no comparison between these classes at a cc and at UF . I got here n was blown away by a 3000 level corse because how quickly the class went I did well on the quizzes 8-9 out of ten but the exam killed me .differntials equations I’ve picked up pretty quickly</p>
<p>I’ve got to talk to my advisor about the W n how it will effect me being that technically transfer must graduate with their major</p>
<p>Looks like all the chem.e. students have the same exact schedule, LOL!</p>
<p>I’m also taking P.chem / Material & Energy balances / bio for engineers / professional seminar for chem.e. / and writing for engineers. What orientation did you have? June 6ish?</p>
<p>Lol something like that</p>
<p>Also take into consideration class curves and all that. I took eng.stats last semester and scored in the 50s on one of my tests and still walked out with an A- due to everyone else also failing.</p>
<p>If you do research you will discover that very few schools even count the W… Many students end up with a W for a variety of reasons and schools understand that (why do you think they offer it in the first place???) Ppl get Ws for sickness, too much work load, missed too many classes, changed schools/moved out of town, relatives dealing with health problems, etc. To my knowledge maybe 10% of schools will mark a W as a bad grade… very few law schools (we all know how selective they can be) will count a W as anything other than a W. So relax… and if you are really worried you can easily checkout your future grad school to find out how they look at them.</p>
<p>The W is definitely better. Avoid “fail” at ALL costs. If you have a few W’s here and there (2-3) then it shouldn’t be a problem for any grad school. Its when there’s W’s everywhere that it becomes a concern.</p>