<p>This is concerning the terminal official transcript you have to submit to your graduate school of choice before matriculating. </p>
<p>As long as you’ve passed your requirements, do they care about anything else? I am thinking about changing a current optional class to Pass/D/Fail status, or dropping it entirely. The thing is, will it be strange if I only have TWO classes listed in my final semester, and nothing else? Also, would it be weird to see a “P” instead of a letter grade? </p>
<p>Basically, will they care, and do they ever do anything about it? Does anyone get their offer rescinded due to this transcript, aside from them not completing requirements?</p>
<p>No I didn’t get my offer rescinded…but during the interview process (long before offers were made to me), I was grilled about discrepancies in my transcript (I had a few W’s and 2 C’s).
They wanted explanations for these blemishes on my transcript. I would say drop it entirely or get a “P,” and have a good explanation at the ready in case schools start asking about it.</p>
<p>The final transcript usually goes to the graduate school, not to your program, and they just want to see that you graduated. I can imagine they might have a problem if your final semester GPA brought your overall average to less than a 3.0 or something, but changing a class to junior/senior P/D/F is not going to raise any eyebrows.</p>
<p>No I think that would be less of a concern…I def. was whitting down to less-than-normal courseload by the end of it. If it’s your last semester, a lot of people get done early and don’t need more classes, and just take one or two.
I think my last semester was mostly independent credit, which wasn’t even a real class…just helping a professor out with some reasearch.</p>
<p>Again, I don’t think the graduate school will really analyze it beyond checking that you actually completed your degree.</p>
<p>I took 3 classes in my last semester (one P/D/F), which was about half of what my courseload had been in each of the previous three semesters. Nobody noticed or cared.</p>
<p>In terms of logistics, you should see if you’ll incur any financial aid obligations if you drop to two classes, which is considered half-time at MIT.</p>