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At my school, the deadline to drop is 3 weeks into the semester (with no course tuition refund). After that period, if you still want to drop a course, you can only do so by submitting a withdrawal application with a medical or equally serious reason, never a reason like a potential bad grade. What really sucks is that the application is reviewed by a committee and the review process takes 6~8 weeks, so you need to keep going to classes for the course you want to drop... Even then, your application can be rejected at the end of the 8-week review process if the committee judges that your reason is not extenuating enough (it's subjective, but my school's website says medical reasons documenting hospitalization records and doctor signatures, etc. are usually considered evidence for extenuating circumstances). It seems that many other schools don't have such strict drop policies and deadlines, and some even seem to allow students to drop on their own close to the final exam. I'm interested in knowing what the drop policy is like at other schools.
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