Help! Dropped a course...should I worry?

pin3appl3
Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:24:31 +0000

Hi all, I need your help.

I recently dropped an elective because I was doing very very poorly (like C/D level), and I knew that I would not be able to get a good final mark. I did not enjoy the course (a STEM course which I am not good at), and the teacher was not helpful at all. I was taking 5 courses (my counsellor strongly recommended I did not do that but I still did), and felt that the courseload was too much. I truly felt my mental health suffering, and I knew that if I continued with the course, I would have had a breakdown and would have suffered greatly in my other courses. It would just do me more harm than good to have kept the course.

My counsellor allowed me, and backed me up on dropping the course. I also had more than enough credits that I could have graduated last semester, etc. I am doing amazingly well (pretty much perfect) in all of my other courses; it was just that one course. (I believe my final marks in the other courses will reflect that I’m still doing really well in school). All in all, my school highly approved my decision to drop the course.

I started to worry whether or not my Wellesley acceptance will be rescinded because of this one dropped course. I have a very solid list of reasons why I dropped it, and my guidance counsellor is very supportive. I was wondering if I should get my counsellor to email Wellesley and let them know of my situation/circumstances, and that I’m still doing well in all of my other courses. Is this something I should worry about? Any help would be greatly appreciated.