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Is the current drop date too soon?

“You have more than enough time to get out of the class with a W instead of fail. You have more than two months to see if your doing good and see if you’re able to pass it. You can pretty much either decide to stay and pass the class or bring up your grade and get out with a W as opposed with a fail.”

-Jose Navarro, 24, Accounting major, Freshmen

“I think it may not give some students sufficient time because there are students who do work really hard but may not pass the class. I feel Even two weeks before the final would sufficient enough for them to know whether or not they are going to make it.”

“It seems really late but yeah I guess if you’re failing then you get a chance to take the class again. Sometimes students flake. They stop trying and things happen in their personal life. Their job becomes a problem because they have to work a lot and they realize they can’t get their midterm, their essay, their paper. They can’t get good grades because they are too wrapped up in other things. It gives them a shot to reboot.”

-Political Science Professor Denise Robb

“I feel it is because it gives students ample time to make a decision. It’s called a strategic drop. By May 8th you know whether you’re going to fail the class and you have to make a decision of whether you’re going to continue and waste your time or learn you’re lesson and adjust next time you take that class.”

-Joe Hernandez, 29, International Development Studies major, Junior

“Dropping a class makes you look bad. You don’t get to explain yourself when you transfer to universities. They just see that you dropped the class, and people automatically assume that you are irresponsible or you don’t know how to handle yourself. But life happens and I feel that there should be something like that where you can trade the grade instead. Yeah, so there’s more room for you to live life and be a student.”

Rene Paredes,

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