If you wish to drop your only course in a UC Berkeley Summer Session (or all of your courses in a single session), you should submit a withdrawal from that Session through your CalCentral. You can withdraw from one session (ex: Summer Session A) without withdrawing from the entire summer.
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If you wish to drop your only course in a UC Berkeley Summer Session (or all of your courses in a single session), you should submit a withdrawal from that Session through your CalCentral. You can withdraw from one session (ex: Summer Session A) without withdrawing from the entire summer.
Approved withdrawals will receive a non-punitive indicator of "W" on the student's official record. Withdrawals are requested by navigating to extension.berkeley.edu, logging in, selecting “My Enrollment History” and then “Request to Withdraw.”
To be officially registered at Berkeley, you must meet three criteria: You must be enrolled in at least one course. Your registration fees must have been paid (even if “not yet due”), either in full or, if on the Tuition and Fee Payment Plan, at least the first installment.
To clear academic holds, you must contact the dean’s office of your college/school or major adviser. Click on the hold to find the contact office. Note: If your college has a semester limit, you may have a hold when you have reached that limit and are no longer eligible to enroll at UC Berkeley.
You must submit a withdrawal form on CalCentral > My Dashboard > Add a Withdrawal Request. Students will be charged a $10 late fee for each class dropped after the end of the second Friday of instruction (11:59 p.m. PST).
If it is before the deadline, you can submit a drop through CalCentral the Enrollment block of your Academics tab. If it after the deadline, then you should submit a Summer Late Change of Class Schedule, which can be found on our Forms and Petitions webpage during summers.
Important Definitions. Course Drop: Removal of a course from your schedule prior to the end of the first week of class. Course Withdrawal: Any removal of a course from your schedule after the end of week one using the online form provided.
Option #1 – Withdraw from the class. Withdrawal usually means the course remains on the transcript with a “W” as a grade. It does not affect the student's GPA (grade point average). Although students may be reluctant to have a “W” on their transcript, sometimes “W” stands for Wisdom.
Withdrawals on transcripts The withdrawal date will appear on the administrative transcript and all courses for the semester will be removed. The reason for withdrawal is confidential and does not appear on the official transcript.
A retroactive withdrawal is defined as a request to withdraw from a course after the last day the class meets or from a full term after the last day of classes for the term.
Failing & Then Re-Taking a Class Croskey notes that dropping a class is better than withdrawing, but withdrawing is better than failing. “A failing grade will lower the student's GPA, which may prevent a student from participating in a particular major that has a GPA requirement,” Croskey says.
Throughout your college career, you may have to drop a class. Doing so is not frowned upon as there are many valid reasons as to why it would be the right decision. But, when you do choose to drop a class, it's best if you do so before the deadline and have chosen to do so after attempting other alternative solutions.
An unofficial withdrawal impacts both your GPA and your Pace/Completion Rate. It is better to officially withdraw from your class than to stop attending and let yourself get assigned an F-grade.
1, or maybe 2, W's is generally okay, but >5 is a major red flag. This sends the message that when the going gets tough, you cut and run rather than tough it out & do what you need to do to succeed.
Serious and Compelling Reasons An extended absence due to a death in the immediate family. This applies to absences exceeding a week due to family affairs that must be attended to by the student. A necessary change in employment status which interferes with the student's ability to attend class.
5 Reasons You Can Drop a Course: The course isn't required for your degree, isn't relevant to your degree, or isn't an acceptable elective. You're too far behind in the syllabus and you can't fathom catching up. You bombed your first midterm and can't reasonably recover your grade. (Abort mission.