What looks worse a withdrawal or no credit

[Alaskan _Polarbear]

I'm in a predicament right now with my biochemistry course. My university allows GPNC's for courses and I set my biochemistry grade to a C. Basically if I get anything higher than a C i get the grade, and if I get anything lower than the grade I get no credit and it doesn't affect my GPA.

My GPA is currently a 3.4 and I can't afford a C at this point and I been getting 60s on my exam and because my GPA can't afford a C at this point I was going to just no credit the course and take it again. I was wondering if it looks bad that I got no credit for a course or if it would look worse if I withdrew from the course.

The second predicament is that biochemistry is a very high demand course at my university and there's a high chance that I cannot retake the course at my university and will have to take it somewhere else over the summer.

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[doktorinprogres]

From my perspective a withdrawal is easier to explain if asked about it (somewhat unlikely) compared to no credit. If the course shows on your transcript and no credit was awarded I imagine it would raise questions as to why.

Withdrawal you can say you changed your mind about taking it that semester due to any number of things.

 

[mrdeez]

Always go with the withdrawal over anything that implies a low grade. Tons of people have W’s and it only means one thing, you withdrew lol. Way easier to come up with a valid reason for withdrawing than for getting this GPNC thing. I have a couple W’s on my transcript, 3.5 gpa, just got done with 6 interviews, not one of them asked about them. Make sure when you take it over summer that you take it at a UNIVERSITY because some schools don’t accept credits from community colleges. Even if you are still making your school list, just take it at a university to be safe. Good luck!