accused of cheating

motherbear332
Sun, 09 May 2010 09:23:53 +0000

I don’t think someone seeing a WF on a transcript is going to make people suspect cheating just because it was a psychology class. All a WF means is that the student withdrew from the course after the deadline for a W. This could happen for any number of reasons, including the student decided to drop the class early on, but neglected to take care of the paperwork (this happens surprisingly often, ime), had health problems, missed an important exam for some reason or other, just didn’t like the class and was getting bad grades, etc.

For students at that university, there may be consequences on the GPA and academic standing, but based on what the OP has said, the main consequences of this for her son are the unpleasant and stressful experience he’s been through and losing the credit for a course that he worked hard on. This is bad enough–no need to make it seem worse than it is.