What is the different between Imcomplete and Withdraw

[shengx12]

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What is the different between Imcomplete and Withdraw--they all sound like the same thing to me?

if you took a AP test, but you only get a 4 and you still claimed the credit. Then you plan actully take the class, does that count as "repeat course", but somehow I don't see this, since you did not actully took this class....

 

[tinman831]

Usually an Incomplete is just a temporary "no grade" which is given by the professor for extenuating circumstances. Usually if a student misses a final exam, they'll get an 'I' and have to make it up in order to receive a grade for the course. The Incomplete grade will become an F if the student doesn't rectify the situation. A withdraw simply means the student dropped the course during the middle of the semester. 🙂

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Usually an Incomplete is just a temporary "no grade" which is given by the professor for extenuating circumstances. Usually if a student misses a final exam, they'll get an 'I' and have to make it up in order to receive a grade for the course. The Incomplete grade will become an F if the student doesn't rectify the situation. A withdraw simply means the student dropped the course during the middle of the semester. 🙂

good explanation 👍 Also good to know that some schools may assign a "W" to a dropped class whenever it is dropped, or as long as it's after a certain "drop period". Sometimes this is two weeks into the semester (like my university) or after the half-semester mark. And schools are very unwilling to remove a W since it doesn't affect the GPA at all. An Incomplete is considered a "pending grade" and either turns into the real grade or, like tinman831 said, a 0.0


As for the AP courses, you don't have to decide which courses you put on AADSAS and which you don't. Simple copy everything on your official transcript, letter for letter. If you have planned classes, your transcript (or unofficial transcript) will have your next semester's schedule; if it lists those courses that you decided to take anyway, even though you have AP credits, then you have to list them as well. Sometimes the course you take doesn't even have the same name as the course you got exempted from, so if it's on the transcript, you list it.