<p>Hi College Confidential! How are all of you this fine evening? I thought I would ask, what are some of the long term consequences of dropping a class, or several classes almost every semester? </p>
<p>Example: A friend of yours registers for 18 credit hours, halfway through the semester the friend doesn’t feel like doing one of the classes anymore and feels that the time spent in the class would be better spent elsewhere, so they drop. They do this consistently every semester, signing for 18 or 21 credit hours, then only finishing 15 or 12 of them. </p>
<p>By long term consequences, I mean consequences AFTER undergraduate graduation. (Will it affect employment search or graduate school search?)</p>
<p>I am posting for a lady friend and not for myself. Kthanks.</p>
<p>I just did that for the second time and I only have a total of 38 credits, I expect to be rejected from most graduate programs and to live a life of poverty. Unless your “friend” starts making some major changes in their life they are screwed or will never make over 40-70k (depending on where you live) unless they work for themselves.</p>
<p>I personally have given up on myself because I feel that it is too late to change. Hopefully the cuny system crashes and all my information is lost.</p>
<p>Isn’t there a pretty significant time period where you can drop a class without it showing up on your transcript at your school? It was like a month or so here.</p>
<p>Here you only have one week to drop without it showing up on your transcript. I guess that gives an advantage to the people who attend schools where you have a longer time frame.</p>
<p>Depends, for employers? Nothing, almost no one will care. They usually only care about GPA/ect. </p>
<p>For graduate school this could be a issue. It really depends on her background however on how much this matters. If she has Triple A research experience she can get by with it no problem. If she is solely relying on grades it could be more of an issue (depending on the school). If she wants to go to a school at or near the top of her field it could be an issue and should be explained in the statement of purpose. It becomes less of an issue the better her grades are in the other courses (if she has a 4.0 with a decent explanation she will likely be given a pass). </p>
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<p>Cant tell if your serious here. If so, you need to change your line of thinking. No employer cares at all about "W"s in classes. </p>
<p>They care about two things:
GPA (so you can get by HR, this is more of an issue then you think)
How much you add to the bottom line (are you going to make them more money or add value to the company).</p>
<p>too bad there aren’t very many employers willing to higher B+ students right now. (assuming its a job where there is an opportunity to get to middle class status in)</p>
<p>lebob- Pretty sure ■■■■■, but for others who might think the same thing: employers could generally care less about GPA. It’s grad schools that care.</p>