Question Regarding Physics 2 Course

[davidy200]

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I was just wondering whether I should take a B within Physics 2 or withdraw from the course and retake it another semester. Based on previous forum threads, I've seen the general consensus being that you should take it over a W on your transcript. However, at my university, I am currently a freshmen and the university has policy referred to as "freshmen forgiveness" which allows a freshmen to drop a course up to the last lecture day. If the student does so, the course is scrubbed from his or her transcript as if he or she never took the course so I would have no W on my transcript. The physics 2 professor next semester is known to be easier and I am pretty confident that I could receive an A in that course. If it matters, my GPA at the end of Freshmen year would be a 3.88 if I decided to take the grade or a 4.0 if I decided to redo it.

Sorry if the formatting is poor, this is the first time I posted something to SDN.

 

[Osminog]

I was just wondering whether I should take a B within Physics 2 or withdraw from the course and retake it another semester. Based on previous forum threads, I've seen the general consensus being that you should take it over a W on your transcript. However, at my university, I am currently a freshmen and the university has policy referred to as "freshmen forgiveness" which allows a freshmen to drop a course up to the last lecture day. If the student does so, the course is scrubbed from his or her transcript as if he or she never took the course so I would have no W on my transcript. The physics 2 professor next semester is known to be easier and I am pretty confident that I could receive an A in that course. If it matters, my GPA at the end of Freshmen year would be a 3.88 if I decided to take the grade or a 4.0 if I decided to redo it.

Sorry if the formatting is poor, this is the first time I posted something to SDN.

Are you sure you understand your university's policies? At all of the schools I've heard of that offer "freshman forgiveness," it's marked on the transcript.

 

[curvesetter]

I was just wondering whether I should take a B within Physics 2 or withdraw from the course and retake it another semester. Based on previous forum threads, I've seen the general consensus being that you should take it over a W on your transcript. However, at my university, I am currently a freshmen and the university has policy referred to as "freshmen forgiveness" which allows a freshmen to drop a course up to the last lecture day. If the student does so, the course is scrubbed from his or her transcript as if he or she never took the course so I would have no W on my transcript. The physics 2 professor next semester is known to be easier and I am pretty confident that I could receive an A in that course. If it matters, my GPA at the end of Freshmen year would be a 3.88 if I decided to take the grade or a 4.0 if I decided to redo it.

Sorry if the formatting is poor, this is the first time I posted something to SDN.

Call the registrar and ask them how exactly it will be reported on your transcript if at all. Make them show you the exact policy in the student handbook since they make mistakes sometimes. Also, I would maybe reconsider "scrubbing" if it brings you down to a part-time student.

 

[davidy200]

Thank you for the information. I did not know that you still need to disclose scores even if they are completely removed from the official transcript. I obviously do not want to risk an academic honesty violation to just preserve a 4.0 GPA.

 

[davidy200]

On a slightly different but related notice, upon reading the AMCAS rules regarding coursework, I noticed that it required all course work. When I a sophomore and junior in high school, I took multiple college level courses at my local community college. I decided against transferring the credit so these courses are not on my transcript, would I still need to report those to ACMAS?

 

[Osminog]

On a slightly different but related notice, upon reading the AMCAS rules regarding coursework, I noticed that it required all course work. When I a sophomore and junior in high school, I took multiple college level courses at my local community college. I decided against transferring the credit so these courses are not on my transcript, would I still need to report those to ACMAS?

Yes.