When students withdraw, the course remains on their transcript with a “W” in place of a grade. Washtenaw Voice
Sasha Hatinger
Staff Writer
WCC has changed its withdrawal and audit process. Students can now withdraw from their classes up to 80% of the semester, compared to up to 50% in the previous withdrawal timeframe.
When students drop a class by the deadline, they receive a full refund on tuition and the course disappears from their transcript. When students withdraw by the 80% mark, they do not receive a refund and the course remains on their transcript with a “W” in place of a grade.
Students who audit a class receive an “AU” in place of a grade. Much like taking a class to receive a letter grade, students are responsible for paying full tuition and fees associated with the class they’re interested in auditing.Kathy Currie, student services system architect/registrar, shared more information on both the withdrawal and audit process.
Currie explained that auditing and withdrawing from classes at WCC is now reported as a “status” on transcripts rather than receiving a grade.
“We have many students who want to audit,” Currie indicated.
“While we were evaluating this process, we contacted other schools to see kind of what they were doing, and a lot of those other schools were having it at the end of the semester, kind of the eighty percent of the semester–and none of them were allowing grades to be given as ‘W.’ All the other schools were similar to what we moved to,” Currie explained.
As of Fall of 2022, about 4% of students received ‘W’ as a grade, out of around 34,000 grades that are given in a semester.
For more information on withdrawing from, or dropping a class, visit, https://www.wccnet.edu/learn/register/drop.php to learn more.
