Does a failing grade in Marketing impact your application to Master in CS programs

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I have a friend who is currently a Doctoral student in Business School (Marketing area). Recently, he surprisingly told me that he would leave his program by the end of this semester, as there is no clear research fit between what he wants to do and the faculties in his department. Apparently, he is likely to receive a 'Failed' grade in his Doctoral Seminar in certain Marketing topics (P/F grading scheme, 1 credit). As he is planning to apply for several Master programs in Computer Science area (he has undergraduate degree in C.S. and Math), he is pretty anxious about whether the potential "F" grade on the transcript would strongly impact his application for those Master in C.S. programs (he showed me his transcript, where he mostly got As with a GPA of 3.86 and would be 3.8 if he ended up getting 2 As for the two other courses worth 8 credits in total , together with the 'F' for a 1-credit Seminar course in his department). I told him my guess is that it does not matter much, since Marketing's Doctoral Seminar is not related to Computer Science at all, but he told me to post on this forum to ask if he needs to take further action to avoid getting a "F" but a "W" (it means he has to replace all in progress courses with "W" in this semester). Anybody has any thoughts on whether he should go and fight for a "W" (so, avoid taking risk of a "F" but also, facing the risk of having 4 withdrawal courses in a semester) rather than simply tries his best and see if the "F" actually shows up?