accused of cheating

motherbear332
Wed, 12 May 2010 17:36:17 +0000

QuantMech,

Schools are different, and since none of us know which university is involved, we don’t know what the rules are there.

But, at the schools I’m familiar with it is like bigtree described. You can withdraw with a W up to a certain date, which doesn’t count in the GPA, but after that date you get a WF which counts as failure in the GPA. Each student can only have a certain number of Ws on the way to their degree, so they are recorded in the transcript even though they don’t count in the GPA.

But even if the university in question has WP and WF, the main point I was objecting to was the suggestion that anyone who saw the WF would immediately suspect cheating (because it was a psychology course). This is simply not true in either case.