Hello everyone. I'm taking the prerequisites for accelerated nursing programs. I have a question that I was hoping y'all could give me some advice because I'm freaking out!!!
Have any of you withdrawn from a class and if so, how many? I orginally took A&P during the summer session, and I was doing very well, but I wasn't learning the material. So I withdrew, took it again with the same teacher and got an A. But then I made a blunder. I signed up for A&P2, chem, and micro, all in the same semester. plus I was working. so i had to withdraw from micro, not because I was failing, but because I had no time to work and study. I'm 26, so I'm supporting myself.
Anyway, i'm freaking out that the 2 W's will kill me. My advisor told me to just get A's in the rest of my classes, and that will outshadow the W's. And my anatomy prof said he would write me a letter of rec and say that i didn't withdraw from him class because i was doing bad. i'm just freaking.
any opinion/stories would be helpful. do any of you have W's on your transcript?
I once had a college administrator tell me that repeated withdrawals signaled a student who was shopping for A's and that this was a detriment. I had a relative who would immediately drop any course when she saw she wouldn't get an A. She did this over and over to keep her high GPA. This practice never kept her from reaching her goals. I don't see how others can be accused of doing something unethical (this was the stance of the person telling me about this practice) when some people benefit from it.
I would not worry about one or two W's that came about because of circumstances beyond your control. Just don't create a pattern, like my relative did. What worked for her might not work for you. Give it your best shot.
"Shopping for As?" I never heard that one before. Whenever I have dropped a class, it was because I was shopping for a good instructor!
Whether or not withdrawals will be an issue depends entirely on an individual college's admissions policy. Some schools just ignore them, but out here in California many community colleges are using what's called the "Chancellor's formula." It rates students on four criteria:
Overall college GPA.
College English GPA.
College science course GPA.
Number of college science course repetitions.
Because of the intense competition for slots in nursing programs, any W's in science courses are essentially disqualifying.
Supposedly, the criteria were devised after research showed that students who dropped out or flunked out of nursing programs tended to have deficiencies in those areas.
Valerie Salva, BSN, RN
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"Shopping for As?" I never heard that one before. Whenever I have dropped a class, it was because I was shopping for a good instructor!