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From: rrr@milo.UUCP (Richard Rush)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Topics for Discussion
Message-ID: <684@milo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 10:04:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 10:04:14 1985
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References: <1054@gitpyr.UUCP> <43@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
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> In article <1054@gitpyr.UUCP>, scott@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Holt) writes:
> > I am interested in finding out what kind of
> > policies and requirements other schools have in the following areas:
> > 
> > 		1) Drop policy - what are the rules and regulations
> > 				 reguarding withdrawls from classes and
> > 				 who sets them ( ie. the major school or
> > 				 the institute ). 
> 
> ...  Dropping a class at this point is the same as
> droping a class at any other point in the term -- it doesn't show up
> on your record.  It is the same for any department.
> 
> MIT, I think, is pretty unique in this respect.  

Perhaps not as unique as you think. We at CWRU (Case Tech flavor) have a
virtually (as well as logically and physically) identical policy for with-
drawal. In fact I would be hard pressed to think of a school that is different.

> (...many students at) MIT register for more courses than they would normally 
> take, and then
> drop the ones they have not done well in.  It gives people a "way out"
> of problem situations.

...And this is the reason at CWRU also.

> Are there any other schools with a drop date this late?  Oh - also at
> MIT you can add a course (with the permission of the instructor --
> there's usually no reason for them to object) up until the 5th week of
> the term.

Yes, at Case we can drop until the end of the third week before finals.
also you can add up until then also, (I think) as long as you have been
attending class etc. We are pretty flexible about that kind of stuff here.

				Richard Rush (on CO-OP at Allen Bradley)