“Class drop is very popular at my DD school. In fact school allows them to drop classes as late as one month before finals. DD always takes more classes then she can handle and drops one or two. Add date usually ends somewhere mid semester.”
I’m really surprised by how much policies seem to vary from school to school. At my kids school, if you dropped so late, past the first few weeks or so, it would be a withdrawal on your transcript. One or so over 4 years would be too bad. Stuff happens, illnesses, etc. But definitely not something you would be wanting to happen more than that let alone every semester.
As far as adding mid-semester? That’s nuts IMO. You’ve missed half the class! That would be an auto fail based on attendance alone at many LACs.
So for students taking all these extra classes, are they graduating in 3 years or something? What are they doing with the extra credits?
Are my kids the only ones taking a regular full load for 8 semesters and just making that work?
“post #3 is a really interesting idea! (registering for a few extra classes, trying them out and then deciding)”
I agree with another poster that this strategy could keep other students from getting into the classes they want. My older kids’ college that had the shopping period worked the best IMO.