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This is a crappy crappy situation:

I'm a future UC Davis student. I was taking Oceanography and my Great Grandmother died, which caused me to miss a test. The point is, I knew it would make me get at best a D, so the teacher said he'd give me a late Withdrawal. With that in mind I mailed Davis about the W (who never got back to me) and stopped going to class. Now my transcripts show an F and I feel like I'm screwed. Completely.

What do I do?

By Bluevartouhi (Bluevartouhi) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 04:15 pm: Edit

What happened with the withdrawal, I thought the teacher was going to give you a "late withdrawal?" Anyway, try to get your school to take the class off your record or change the "F" to a "W." I did th esame exact thing, I hneed to withdraw from a class late for personal reasons, and I petitioned to withdraw a week before the class was supposed to end, and they took the class off my record. I've even heard of people petitioning after the class/semester was over and explaining the situation and the school changing the "F." Your school most certainly will have a petition process for this.

By Kriskrass (Kriskrass) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 04:17 pm: Edit

Argue it at your CC they are often willing to help I had 5 F`s on my trancsript however all where repeated and I still got into ucla/ucsd, however is your F from this last semester? Cause with this happeneing without the ability to retake it, its I assume making you lose units bringing down your gpa and possibly not allowing you to fufil igetc? If this is true start phone calls to davis and your CC cause I assume they will revoke you if your under 60 units your gpa drops or you dont fufill igetc/core courses.

By Northstarmom (Northstarmom) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 07:53 pm: Edit

Contact the professor. The professor may have forgotten about it. Also, I would imagine that both the professor and you would have to file some paperwork for you to get a late withdrawal. I doubt that the professor could do this unilaterally. Perhaps the professor was waiting for you to come with the paperwork.

By Botheredone (Botheredone) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 02:59 am: Edit

I tried to contact the professor. I tossed his syllabus when I moved back to Sacramento (where I'm from). I already knew I wasn't going to complete IGETC without the Oceanography course, I called Davis, they said it was fine; their Gen-ed requirements are different. I still have well over 60 units, I graduated my CC with an associates in transfer studies.

I don't think Davis will necessarily revoke my admission, but I want to go to Law school. I can't have this affect my GPA. I can't take it again because the school was in San Diego and I am now in Sacramento. Also, the teacher moved to Oregon, he's the only professor who offered the course.

I contacted the department head today and asked him to contact the teacher, which he is doing. I don't think he could have not gotten the paperwork through AND not told me about it if he didn't. That is REALLY mean if he did. My guess is he forgot, but it makes the situation sticky.

By Collegeprof (Collegeprof) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 11:31 pm: Edit

Generally speaking, professors are not unreasonable. But they're often hard to get a hold of in the summer... keep calling and e-mailing until you get them to listen to you--it's clearly a "bureaucratic problem" that can be corrected.