Transcript Question re: Withdrawal

[will415]

Hi,

I took a single class at a university that I ended up withdrawing from due to work/commute issues. Should I include a transcript from this school in my applications? This was the only class I tried to take at this institution.

Thanks!

[eklavya]

you don't have to include this transcript if this class wasn't transferred to your 'main' school. and since you withdrew from the class, i assume you didn't transfer it. since the class passed on to the oblivion, you'll be fine without this.

[will415]

you don't have to include this transcript if this class wasn't transferred to your 'main' school. and since you withdrew from the class, i assume you didn't transfer it. since the class passed on to the oblivion, you'll be fine without this.

Thanks for responding. I'd be interested in hearing more opinions, especially because I will be including transcripts from several schools where I did various post-bacc work.

Thanks again!

[Rodao]

Officially, you're supposed to include all transcripts from post-secondary institutions attended (for most schools).

Unofficially, however, a single withdraw certainly won't help you in any way, and the admissions people will never be in a position to find out about it if you don't send in a transcript.

I would just exclude it entirely.

[kaykaykay]

I transferred to another country! in my first year. In my applications first I included the first university on my CV and wrote: withdrawn for such and such reasons. I was afraid somehow that "they" would find out.(I did not intend to send any transcripts) I was advised by my MA advisor to drop the whole thing because it was very confusing and useless. My advisor was right, nobody ever cared what did I do in that semester which was not accounted for on my CV. Now thinking it over with clear head I doubt that even in the universities where I got in and they closely looked at my file anybody had noticed it. (Mind all of this takes place outside the US but I doubt that your case would be any different)