im not sure and really lookin into it for a lit class

11/15/2005 1:03:22 AM

just one class is a selective drop not a withdrawal

11/15/2005 1:49:30 AM

it means, mouth or chest

11/15/2005 2:21:24 AM

The last day to drop a 400 or below class was in September. At this point if you withdraw from the university you drop all of your classes. If you withdraw Ws will appear on your transcript. If that's going to be an issue with a future first employer I'd think of a really good excuse. You'll need one from a counsellor, too, for the withdrawal.

11/15/2005 9:11:56 AM

You can drop a class, if there is sufficient cause or reason to do so. You don't have to withdraw the entire semester.

11/15/2005 1:20:05 PM

^ exactly, just have to get the right signatures!

11/15/2005 2:22:13 PM

^^ Is sucking at a class and realizing too late that you should've dropped months ago sufficient cause or reason?

11/15/2005 4:14:48 PM

^technically, NO.

Here's what the official PAMS site has to say about schedule changes after drop day:

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"As such, dropping specific courses (or changing to CR or AU) after this deadline is considered only for unforeseen and unavoidable extenuating personal situations. Here are examples of reasons that are not valid for dropping a course (or changing to CR or AU) after the deadline. I am doing poorly in the course. I do not like the way the course is being taught. I have discovered the course is not needed for my degree. I want to protect my GPA. I didn't know I was registered for the course. I was not prepared for the course. "

The PAMS late drop information is at: http://www.pams.ncsu.edu/students/latepolicy.php
The CHASS late drop information is at: http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/chass/docs/faculty/acad_rules_and_proc.pdf

You can probably search "late schedule revision" and your college on the NCSU website and find other policies.

11/15/2005 6:30:20 PM

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"I didn't know I was registered for the course. "

When I was in school I had nightmares like that. It'd be halfway through the semester and someone would come up to me and ask me how I did on the huge midterm that was yesterday for this class I am allegedly signed up for but haven't been going to ever.

11/15/2005 11:37:12 PM

I am dropping a class for medical reasons this semester and you have to get all the correct signatures including the teacher signature, dean of the department of the class you are dropping, advisor signature, and dean or asst dean of your department signature. At least that is what is required to drop something without a W in CALS.

11/16/2005 6:25:26 PM

thats me then i hope
what was ur reason?

11/17/2005 3:39:49 AM

There is another option besides a late schedule revision. If you've had something bad go down during the semester that has affected your studies, you can approach the instructor and request an incomplete. They usually like to see documentation. Granting an incomplete is up to the discretion of the instructor.

There are a few downsides to an incomplete. For one, according to NCSU academic policy you're supposed to carry all the grades from the course with you and just complete the stuff you've missed due to the event. Therefore, if your scores up until then aren't so good, you probably don't want to bring them with you. For another, you don't register for the course again. Therefore, you may be carrying 15 credit hours on the books, but in reality working 18 credit hours sometime during the semester in order to make up the incomplete. Finally, there is a time limit on finishing an incomplete. If the work is not made up by the end of the next semester, the grade changes to an F unless you keep in contact with the instructor and make sure you get an extension on your incomplete. Obviously, the longer you wait to finish the work, the more course information you may forget.

The upside is, of course, the time to put your life back together and refocus on your studies.

[Edited on November 17, 2005 at 5:44 PM. Reason : stuff happens ]

11/17/2005 5:43:34 PM

^ She's got it. Its an option. But if you do take an incomplete, cut back one course so that even if you are carrying 12, you have 15 with the incomplete rather than overloading over a regular full load.

11/18/2005 12:14:41 PM

yea i was up till 7 last night studying and as soon as my head hit the pillow I though about the incomplete option, the teacher even wanted me to go to a class next semester that shes teaching so..i think this is a very good option, as for my PE classes i really need to change them to CR due to the illness, pretty sure the univ. doc can get me a substantial note for that...but yea...that would really really help me, with an incomplete

11/18/2005 2:57:32 PM

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" thats me then i hope what was ur reason?"

thrown out of a car in an auto accident over the summer... dropped summer school classes and added them to the Fall semester in order to not delay graduation. Yet, medical issues have complicated so its def time to drop a course or two for me.

Good luck

11/20/2005 12:44:47 AM

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"When I was in school I had nightmares like that. It'd be halfway through the semester and someone would come up to me and ask me how I did on the huge midterm that was yesterday for this class I am allegedly signed up for but haven't been going to ever. "

I have this dream too. It's usually for a math class and I find out about it around final time. Ugh, what a terrible, terrible dream.

11/20/2005 10:58:30 PM

holy crap i had that dream all the time when I was in school too. I thought I was the only weirdo.

11/20/2005 11:54:08 PM