<p>I'm taking a 1st year japanese course and have missed about half of the classes due to illness and I KNOW that I just completely failed the midterm (seriously, if I got 40% I'd be amazed) so I'm thinking of withdrawing from the class. I'll still be able to graduate and everything, I'm just wondering how a withdrawal will look to grad schools. It will be the only class I've ever withdrawn from and I'm graduating a year early as it is. I'm taking 22 credits this semester and Japanese is a 5 credit course so it's a big chunk of my semester's GPA if I fail. Thoughts? HELP</p>
<p>Better to withdraw than to fail.</p>
<p>Jeez. The search function is there for a reason. </p>
<p>Ditto on what cosmicfish said.</p>
<p>And adcoms don’t give a **** about a few withdrawals.</p>
<p>wow mastermoe, sorry i offended you so much just by asking a question. if you are so annoyed by it then don’t answer.</p>
<p>What gave you the impression I was annoyed in the slightest? Cuz I wasn’t. Calm down there champ.</p>
<p>What field do you plan on entering? Regardless, an serious illness will probably be a fine explanation. But if you are planning on entering some sort of Japanese international studies program, this might rise a red flag. Other than that super specific program, I doubt it will matter at all.</p>
<p>Oh I’m applying for a Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology, but my major is in Linguistics, so it sort of relates.</p>