<p>This chem and chem lab is killing me. I'm doing so well in everything else, including calculus, but chem and chem lab is making it very difficult. I'm honestly afraid that I have only two options:</p>
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<li><p>Do well in everything else and fail chem and chem lab.</p></li>
<li><p>Do somewhat poorly in everything trying to do well in chem and chem lab.</p></li>
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<p>My school has a policy where any D or F that you received in the first 60 credit hours can be replaced if you retake the course. The old grade will still read on the transcript, but it wont factor in to GPA calculation and there will be a note on the transcript that said it was repeated. Unfortunately I don't think I can withdraw because of my grants that require 12+ credit hours and I'd be at 10 if I withdrew.</p>
<p>Are you allowed to drop the lab and then take it next semester? Would you still have enough credits’ worth of courses if you dropped just the lab? If so, would dropping the lab lighten the workload enough so that you can do well in the chemistry course and your other courses?</p>
<p>^Great Idea, definitely try that. Those labs are horribly time consuming for no reason other than to be so.</p>
<p>Do you have an academic advisor you can speak to about this? Also, are there study groups, tutoring or other services available that could help with chem? The support at my D’s university is phenomenal, but you have to seek it out. And lots of kids do!</p>
<p>Yes I finally got a hold of my adviser today. He said I can drop both and replace them with two 2nd 8 weeks courses that are 2 credit hour each to bring me back up to full time. Now I just have to see if I’ll be charged anything for doing this.</p>
<p>But a 2 credit 8 week course will probably have the weekly workload of a 4 credit 15 week course.</p>
<p>Is it allowed to drop just the lab (and take the lab a later semester)?</p>