Withdrawing From Course

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>I am an undergraduate engineering student at Tufts University in the fall semester of my sophomore year. My current transcript is below. How bad does the second W look? If I withdraw, would try to either take the course over the summer if possible or the coming spring semester.</p>

<p>Pre-College (each is counted as 1 credit)
Math 32 (Calc 1)
Bio 13
Ap Us History
Ap English</p>

<p>Freshman Fall
Math 36 (applied calc 2) C+
Intro Engineering A-
Physics 11 (physics 1 for engineers) D+
Italian Pass</p>

<p>Freshman Spring
Math 42 (calc 3) C
Physics 11 B+
Intro Engineering 2 B+
Chem 1 W</p>

<p>Sophomore Fall
Diff E Q Considering W
Comp 11 (Intro Comp) A
Physics 12 (physics 2 for engineers) B
Circuits C
Statisc & Dynamics C</p>

<p>Sophomore Spring Current Schedule
Fluid Mechanics
Applied Strength
Discrete ( would switch out for DIff E Q)
ME 1 ( Fabrication and Design)
Chem 1
Comp 15 ( data structures) </p>

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<p>This is a question for your adviser. There may be course sequencing complications and possible risk to graduation date (aka extra costs to parents). </p>

3

<p>How bad does it look for whom?</p>

<p>Does your school have an evaluation/review at the end of certain milestones (end of sophomore year perhaps)? Employers don’t give a crap and it is much too early for you to be thinking about grad school.</p>

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<p>Schedule an appointment with your advisor to make sure that, as above, you won’t mess up any prerequisites by withdrawing. That being said, my dept advisors said that virtually no one makes it through an engineering curriculum without a W or two, so I would imagine that it would look better than a D or F. </p>

<p>Also, don’t forget to consider full time status # of credit hours and your GPA for any scholarships or financial aid you might be getting.</p>