<p>I'm taking Trigonometry and am at a C but just barely. There's one more test worth 30% and final cumulitative worth 35%. What would be the consequences of withdrawing over risking a D on my transcript?</p>
<p>Background:
- starting sophomore year in fall
- currently have 4.0 GPA with 28 credit hours (including A in mandatory Econ class for my major)
- planning on majoring in Public Policy or Urban Planning
- took Trig as prerequisite for Calculus
- Calculus is not required for AA or for transfer to UIC program but University of Chicago requires full year (3 quarters) of calculus
- UIC though less competitive than UofC is still competitive for this particular major</p>
<p>Don't know if this matters at all:
- I'm 30, so been out of school for long time, received A in College Algebra class last semester, been working part time and freelancing in addition to school </p>
<p>A ‘W’ wouldn’t affect your transfer plans in any way. Like @yolocholo said a ‘W’ is better than a ‘D’ or an ‘F’. W’s don’t give you credit for a class that you took, it basically erases it. It’s still on your transcript, but it’ll look like you never took the course so it wouldn’t affect your GPA or anything.</p>
<p>thanks yolocholo and sumurray09. I’m 90% sure going to withdraw. talked to one advisor, meeting with advisor from transfer office tomorrow. I have 'til wednesday to decide. On Monday I get results from 2nd test. </p>
<p>the only weird thing is my advisor showed me my academic record and classes I dropped in previous semesters - as in I registered for them, and changed because of work scheduling conflicts BEFORE the semester even started are showing up as WTH (withdrawals). Is that normal? I’m at a City Colleges of Chicago (Harold Washington College).</p>
<p>In most colleges the class that you dropped wouldn’t show up at all. I’m not sure how Harold Washing College does it because I’m from California, I think our Community Colleges do things differently.</p>
<p>I thought they would just be dropped - worst case scenario the print out of my academic record includes the date I dropped so I can show transferring school that despite being labeled a “withdrawal” it was actually a dropped class. It’s just beyond silly that I have 2 withdrawals from 2 fall 2013 classes and the term is a month away from starting. I just happened to change same class to a different time and switched one math course for another math course. </p>
<p>I went office hopping this morning and of course got different answers from different people. </p>
<p>Transfer center advisor said it was weird that they showed up as withdrawals, he sent me to registrar’s office (at Truman campus of city colleges of Chicago). Person at registrars said that it shows up in academic record (internal to college) but won’t on official transcript. Went to other registrar’s office (Harold Washington) she said it WOULD show up on official transcript. Financial aid office at Harold said it shouldn’t show up and suggested I talk to advisor and petition to have that fixed before I start transfer process. I guess it’s better I caught this before I started sending transcripts to schools.</p>
<p>Droped classes before the semester won’t show up when you transfer. Whatever school you try to transfer to will see you have a W. One W may be fine, if it becomes a habit they are seen by admissions as “why can’t this person finish a class?” aka F’s</p>
<p>Just a follow up in case someone else is in this situation. I payed to get an official transcript - opened it up, and saw that none of those dropped courses that appeared in the unofficial transcript showed up in the official one.
I ended up withdrawing from the summer class - it shows up as a withdrawal on my transcript. But it’s the only one I have and it doesn’t appear to have affected my transfer plans since I’ve been accepted to 2 colleges I applied to: Smith and Mount Holyoke. The other 2 colleges have yet to release their decisions.</p>