F on an accidentally Un-Dropped class...Advice?

[Doc...]

Hi all,
I graduated in '13 and am just applying for med school after working in research to improve my application. I took the MCAT did really well but my undergrad GPA was lower. I was an athlete and worked throughout my 4 years. When I requested my transcripts I found that I received an "F" in online computers after I had graduated. I had had a conversation with my academic advisor before starting my last semester and miscalculated my how many units I needed to graduate (forgot to count the semester I was currently in (insert eye roll)). After explaining to him that I had plenty of units to graduate he agreed to drop the online computer class. Apparently that didn't happen and I didn't see it because he signed me up for the summer class that started after I had graduated. Now he has left my school and I have an "F' on a transcript and no one seems to want to help. I don't know what to do. I can explain this grade but with an already lower than average GPA the situation feels pretty dismal and I'm not sure if I should postpone applying until I retake the F***ing ONLINE COMPUTER CLASS or risk it and hope that admissions people are in a sympathetic mood when they come across my app.

Any advice??!! I feel like there should be a loop hole or something that says if you didn't know you were in the class you shouldn't get a grade for it.

Sincerely,
Playing jump rope the the line between self pity and homicidal ideation

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[bananafish94]

That blows royally. It sounds like the only thing you can do is continue to press the administration to see if there's anyway it can be changed to a W or to get it off the transcript entirely. Hopefully somebody with more experience with something like this can offer advice because I would hate to see somebody's application be affected by something like this.

 

[tskbdmnd]

On my school's enrollment website. It says that I am financially and academically responsible for all classes on my schedule. It also says failure to go to classes does not result in withdrawal.

 

[Hopeful_vet]

A very similar thing happened to me. I withdrew from school completely and later found out that 1 of my classes was showing an F instead of a W. I was lucky that the registrar fixed it with a simple email. They used common sense to see that I had 2 Ws and an F, so logically the F should have been a W.


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