Need input from fellow college students

[phatj]

I'm in my 4th week at Ohio State... the drop deadline was a week ago...

I'm taking 24 credit hours right now. One of my courses is a history course (just a gen ed requirement course). I want to drop that so I have more time for research and work.

However, I also do not want a W on my transcripts.

There have been no grades yet (we only have one midterm and a final), so everyone has 0/0 in the class.

Think there's any chance an advisor will allow me to drop this course instead of withdraw? There are just much more productive things I could do during this time and I need to work more cuz I have to pay for summer courses myself

 

[KarmaPolice]

how are u just in the 4th week..is it tri semesters? Anyway..I know in my school...there is no getting around the deadline..they cant do anything about it.

 

[zanieladie]

Contact the college and/or the professor...

 

[smack Down]

Just withdraw no one is going to care that you withdrew from a history course.

 

[DaiShan]

You can petition the college, but if your reason is simply that you've taken too high of a course load then you will have to settle for a 'W' Also, why on God's green earth are you taking 24 hours in a semester?!?

 

[BUrassler]

You also likely wont get the money for those credits back either.

 

[EyeMWing]

I hope you're a freshman... Because if you've spent more than a year at college and don't know that anything over 20hrs is academic, social, and economic suicide, you're not saveable.

And just take the W. Nobody is going to care.

 

[phatj]

i'm applying to med schools tho.... a W is going to suck. I dont care much about the money... the reason isn't that I've taken too high a course load (i've taken 25 credit hours for the past 2 quarters), it's just now I have excellent research opportunities and I need to also put more hours in at work

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: phatj
i'm applying to med schools tho.... a W is going to suck. I dont care much about the money... the reason isn't that I've taken too high a course load (i've taken 25 credit hours for the past 2 quarters), it's just now I have excellent research opportunities and I need to also put more hours in at work

Med school.... Sig.... Oh, okay. You're exempt from the suicide law of scheduling.

And a med school isn't going to care about a W if you tell them the fvcker was to make time for research.... If they care about a W in some crappy history course at all.