<p>If you are going to withdraw, the sooner you do it, the better. </p>
<p>If you leave soon enough, you might get some of your money back. If you leave before any academic record has been generated, it can be as though you never had a relationship with that college at all, and you will be treated as a regular freshman applicant.</p>
<p>If you withdraw after an academic record is created, for the rest of your life whenever you apply to college or grad school you will have to request an official copy of that transcript full of Ws. It will be a pain in the you-know-what to have to keep track of that forever.</p>