It depends…what else is at risk besides your other course grades?

Scholarships/funding: are you receiving any scholarship funds or financial aid that require carrying 15 units? If there is no negative impact on your funding, consider dropping.

Refund: if you drop now, can you get a refund (even partial) for the tuition?

Progress toward your degree: how will dropping affect your progress toward your degree?

Are you also working? (full or part time?)

There may be other considerations, but basically making any decision boils down to clearly defining the problem, examining possible actions and their attendant consequences, and your willingness to accept the consequences for your actions.

A very critical question demanding the utmost of honesty and awareness of self-denial is this….if you do drop the course, will you actually use that time (the class time and the outside of class time) to really perform well in the remaining classes.

Normally a 12 semester credit load is considered full time. A rule of thumb….for each hour of lecture, you should allow 1-2 hours of outside study. So, a 12 unit load is 12 hrs in class + 12 or 24 hrs outside of class preparing…or 24 – 36 hrs total each week…if it is 36 hrs…that’s a full time load (close enough to a 40 hr full time work week). With 15 credits, it is 15 hrs in class….+ 15 or 30 hrs of prep…total 30-45 hrs…and the 45 hrs is over time.

Wow imagine working in addition to studying?! The rule of thumb calls for 20 hrs work max for students with a full time load (most often 12 units)….so 20+ 36 = 56hr…definitely an overtime situation….and with 15 units + 30 _20 = 65 units…putting it close to a double time load….and don’t forget all the other things you do with your life that take time each week.

Remember, with only 24 hrs per day, 7 days a week, you only have 168 hrs available for school, work, play, and life in general.

My feeling is to drop the class, learn more effective time management and hone your study skills and make sure you do finish the remaining classes with strong grades…and then learn the lesson to plan your semester work loads better. Seems with your existing schedule, there is NO slack time or spare time for any emergency situations. If one arose, your whole life begins to fall apart due to lack of time.

Hope this helps….good luck to you.

A general rule of thumb when it comes to all college classes is this: It is always going to look better to see a W on a transcript than it is to see an F! Nobody know you better than you know yourself. If you already know that this class is kicking your *** and that your other classes are suffering due to this insanely challenging class which is occupying too much of your time, you should definitely drop the course (at least for now) and focus your attention on the other 4 classes and do very well in them. Staying in a course where you might fail or could pass, but only pass with a C and get C’s in the other courses as well, is not going to be as satisfying and will only lower your gpa. Dropping this course is the wisest decision that you could make at this time!

If you feel that you wont be able to focus as much time as you need in your other classes, and the class you want to drop isnot going to hold you back from graduating, then, by all means, yes- drop it. 12 credits will still consider you as a full time student, so that shouldn’t be a probablem in the financial aspect of it. It’s barely worth it if you keep the class and end up getting C’s in your other classes.

If you really feel strongly that you cannot do well in it, or that it will also affect your performance elsewhere, well then that is the very definition of a situation where you drop. Believe me, it is NOT worth it to try and stick it out. A challenging schedule is nice and all but that niceness kinda goes away when you walk out with a few too many C’s or D’s.

Can u drop without a penalty? If so maybe but think it over.

If not it will be a challenge just cut out other unnecessary things like TV. If u accept and deefeat the challenge nothings better.

for me if i already take a decision I will stick on it.cause my principle same as playing football.even the score 10 to 0 it’s don mean you already lose.because the refferry still not blow the end whistle so it mean even in a second you still had a chance to score.and anything could happen in a second.but for you i advise if you really can’t afford it and it influence your other class better stop.but it really want to finish it let’s get the war started.this is just my opinion hope you get something from it.that all thanks

dont drop it. it’s only a matter of sticking to your schedule and to setting your priorities. just give this tense subject a chance because academic pressure always leads to intellectual stimulation.

Find out if it’ a pass fail class first. If it isn’t stay, you’ll do alright.

I would drop it.