Course Withdrawal After Drop/Add
If a student withdraws from a course after the end of the drop/add period and before the end of the eleventh week of the semester a W (indicating withdrawal) will be noted on the transcript. This notation will not be computed in a student’s grade point average.
Hood College is obligated to record a Withdrawal when students attend courses beyond our stated drop/add deadline, no matter their reason for late dropping, to maintain accurate record keeping for federal aid regulations. We need to accurately maintain a record of attempted credits on the transcript for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) rules and, per those regulations, because we cannot exclude courses where students attended beyond the drop/add period, our SAP calculations and our quantitative standards need to include those attempted credits. While a student may have myriad reasons for needing to leave a course, the Withdrawal is not a value statement, is not punitive, and must remain on the transcript.
A student may not withdraw from a class during the last four weeks of classes.