Failing a Non-Major Related Pass/No Pass Class

mjalt2005x
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:42:54 +0000

Hello. I started a thread similar to this one I just made right now; however, there are some difference in my question now that I have been able to speak with someone regarding this matter. If this is not allowed, I apologize for starting a new thread. I will be sure to not do this in the future.

I am in my first year as transfer bio-sci student at UCI in California. This quarter, I was trying to add one more class in order to fulfill my unit requirements, so I waitlisted myself in multiple classes. I was successfully able to get into one class; however, I made an extremely idiotic mistake by not taking myself off the waitlist in the other class that I was trying to add. I just found out today that it turns out that even though I was #30 on the waitlist, I still got in, even though I did not want to take it anymore. It added my automatically. The problem is, the drop deadline passed 3 days ago, and it won’t let me “drop” it anymore. I thought it would at least give me a warning if I was to be able to add into the class, so it slipped from my mind.

My current schedule includes: OCHEM 3, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry Lab, and an Anthropology class, and all of these classes have discussions that I attend every assigned date and time. In addition, I also have a job outside of campus.

This is seriously so stupid, and I really can’t stop thinking how dumb I am for making this mistake. I really cannot take this class anymore because this class is just an elective (a management class that I thought would be cool to take as back up just in case I do not get into that other class, but only as a unit-filler), and I do not want to risk my grades in my actual bio-related classes just to take this elective. I also have already taken many social sciences/humanities classes since I used to be a psychology major prior to switching to being a bio major, so I really did not need this class.

I spoke with a bio peer advisor, and they recommended me switching the grade option to a P/NP instead; however, like I stated above, I don’t think I would be able to pass this class anyways because I’m already taking a couple of classes and I wanted to focus on them in addition to having a job.

So how bad would it be if I failed a N/NP class that I really do not need?

Thank you once again to anyone that is able to help in advance, and I apologize once again if making a new thread is not allowed. Thanks.