How to Drop or Transfer a Course:
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After week four, students must obtain a drop petition from the academic dean’s office. Impacted classes may be dropped using MyUCLA on or before midnight Friday of the second week of classes with no fee or transcript notation. Impacted classes are noted in class information in MyUCLA and the Schedule of Classes.
(Nonimpacted classes may be dropped through MyUCLA before the final two weeks of instruction.) After midnight on Friday of week one, UCLA students must follow the same impacted-drop procedures as in regular session. They must obtain a Late Impacted Course Drop Petition or Retroactive Drop Petition from their respective counseling unit.
Undergraduate students cannot drop an impacted course after Friday of the second week of a term for other than exceptionally extenuating circumstances. Classes dropped after second week carry a transcript notation of the week the class was dropped.
There are no cash refunds. A $30 administrative fee will be withheld from each dropped course for which a refund is due ($50 for concurrent enrollments). This does not apply to courses that are cancelled by UCLA Extension or transfer requests that are received on or before the final transfer date.
Undergraduate students can drop nonimpacted classes with no fee and no transcript notation on MyUCLA through week four. Later drops may incur fees and may require a petition.
Go in person to the registrar's office to get a class withdrawal sheet. Some institutions also accept withdrawals through email. Look on your school's website for an email address for the registrar's office or the academic advisor's office. When in doubt, contact an academic advisor.
A UCLA Withdrawal Notice form must be submitted to your College advising unit via Message Center. The Withdrawal Notice is available online at the Registrar's webpage . Please be aware that dropping all courses online through MyUCLA does not constitute an official withdrawal from the term.
To Drop a Non-Impacted Class Friday Week 10: submit Restricted Drop petition to your UCLA College advising unit; approval not guaranteed; $35 fee and transcript notation, if approved. Please be aware that students are restricted to three (3) restricted late drops during their academic career.
“A withdrawal will be on the transcripts but does not affect GPA.” Croskey also noted that there aren't any limits to how many classes one can drop because they don't go on the transcript. Withdrawals though are limited and can look bad if there are too many on a student's transcript.
When a student drops a class, it disappears from their schedule. After the “drop/add” period, a student may still have the option to Withdraw. 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).
Get things moving as quickly as you can (SIR at new campus -> check financial aid -> apply for housing -> register for orientation -> cancel old SIR) then run out to celebrate once the dust settles!
If you submitted a SIR to more than one UC campus, you must cancel the SIR at the campus you no longer plan to attend. The SIR deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable. The UCs do not want you to double or triple SIR because you can't make up your mind.
Send a letter describing your circumstance, with appropriate documentation, to Refunds, UCLA Extension, P.O. Box 24901, Los Angeles, CA 90024- 0901. FAX: (310) 206-3223, email: [email protected].
Withdrawal during the final three weeks of instruction (or proportionate for winter and summer terms) is not permitted unless there are serious and extenuating circumstances beyond your control that prevent you from continuing in your classes and Incompletes are not possible.
You may drop summer classes on MyUCLA and receive a refund of course fees if the course(s) is dropped BEFORE the refund deadline: Impacted Courses and Summer Intensives: Friday, Week 1 of the course (by 5PM PDT) Non-Impacted Courses: Friday, Week 2 of the course (by 5PM PDT)
EFFECT ON GPA The “I” grade has no effect on the GPA of the term in which it was taken. A student receives units and grade points for the course after all the coursework has been completed. The actual grade appears on the transcript and DPR in the term in which the work was completed.
How to Withdraw from a Course: 1 After the refund deadline, log in to the UCLA Extension Student Portal 2 In the menu select My Enrollment History 3 Find your course and select “request withdrawal” 4 Follow the prompts to complete your request
You may request to drop or transfer from a course up until the end of day (11:59pm PT) on the final refund or transfer date (see note above for where to find this date). Courses are not transferable to another quarter.
If the final refund date has passed, claims for exception to the course refund policy will be considered only under the most unusual circumstances and only if the request is received within 90 days from the course end date.
Withdraw from a Course. If after the final refund date, you decide to discontinue participating in your course, you have the option to withdraw up until the final withdrawal date. For courses that require a final test, you are no longer eligible to withdraw once you have access to take the final test.
Summer impacted courses may be dropped on or before Friday of the first week of the term with no transcript notation. Impacted courses dropped after the first week carry a transcript notation of the week the class was dropped.
An impacted course is one for which demand exceeds the number of seats available. Undergraduate students cannot drop an impacted course after Friday of the second week of a term for other than exceptionally extenuating circumstances. Classes dropped after second week carry a transcript notation of the week the class was dropped.
If you need to drop a non-impacted class between Weeks 8-10 of a regular term, you will need to submit a Restricted Late Drop petition to your UCLA College Advising Unit. Please be aware that students are restricted to three (3) restricted late drops during their academic career.
If you need to change the credit detail of a class from Letter Grade to Pass/No Pass, or from Pass/No Pass to Letter Grade, after the deadline (Friday, Week 6) (not applicable for the 22W and 22S quarters until after Friday of Week 9), you will need to submit a Credit Detail petition to your UCLA College Advising Unit.
Eligibility: To be eligible for excess units [exceed 19 units in a regular quarter (fall, winter or spring) or exceed 18 units in summer], you must meet ALL of the following conditions:
Removing one or multiple courses from your schedule but remaining in at least one (1) course.
The full drop schedule is available in the Schedule of Classes and in the Dates to Observe.
Deadlines differ from campus to campus. Contact the host campus Registrar’s Office to verify the deadline for dropping a course. The dates that apply for adding/dropping a course are those of the campus where you are taking the online course.
If you choose to drop a course before the deadline, use your school email account and email UC Online Support with the following information: