<p>I am a current college student who has a serious problem. I now have the dreaded “W” engraved into my transcript. How much exactly will a withdrawal hurt my chances at, say, a future? </p>
<p>P.S. Please be nice, I’m rather fragile at this point!</p>
<p>I don’t know, but there was thread about this recently. A parent was concerned bcs her D had to probably take a W bcs every class over 3 missed was a grade lower, or some such thing. However, this class was not in her major and was not going to stop her from graduating on time. She was sick and was unable to attend a class or two, and then needed to go out of town for her aunt’s wedding, which meant another class missed. She was thinking of just dropping the class and taking the W. Most posters felt that it would not hurt for grad school.</p>
<p>i took a W in a class sophomore year, got into an ivy for grad school, and now have a great job. chill out.</p>
<p>don’t feel bad frylock
my daughter has an F because she didn’t have the foresight to withdraw- she retook the class and got an A- but because it was at a different school the F will still stand on her transcript-
If you retake the class I bet the W will disappear,</p>
<p>You will survive. No one will care. It means nothing. Take this from an old guy who had many less than stellar grades on his transcript both in under grad and graduate school.</p>
<p>Withdrawal from one class or from school?</p>
<p>Really, no one will care. What grad schools will care about are the grades on your transcript and what courses you did take.</p>
<p>I got a story for you.
A friend of my dads was very bright- chemistry major- however- if there was any class that he didn’t think he was going to get an A in, he dropped it.
He eventually graduated ( didn’t attend graduation- or pick up his diploma) attended graduate school, got a PHd and recently retired from teaching at a California university</p>