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Title: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 18, 2010, 11:34:47 pm
Just making sure ^^ my GPA is precious to me this semester.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: ninwa on August 18, 2010, 11:57:10 pm
Yup, census date is 31/08/2010 http://www.monash.edu.au/enrolments/dates/census.html
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 19, 2010, 12:03:03 am
Yup, census date is 31/08/2010 http://www.monash.edu.au/enrolments/dates/census.html

thanks =]

I saw that but I was still scared lol >< paranoid me.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: ninwa on August 19, 2010, 12:05:58 am
I dropped a subject before the census, and it's not even on my academic record. It's fine, trust me :P
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: zhenzhenzhen on August 19, 2010, 12:52:59 pm
16 Mon

Last day to discontinue semester two units without 'withdrawn' on academic record.

you don't even get that withdrawn thingo then?
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: Russ on August 19, 2010, 01:25:48 pm
If you get labelled as "withdrawn" make sure that it says "no penalty" or something similar
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: ninwa on August 19, 2010, 02:26:44 pm
Having it shown as "withdrawn" doesn't impact on your GPA AFAIK
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: monokekie on August 19, 2010, 02:31:42 pm
Having it shown as "withdrawn" doesn't impact on your GPA AFAIK

this. :)

but bear in mind that you might need to explain to your future job/post-grad course interviewers the reason/s of your withdrawal.

Edit: coz I can't type
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: gemgem49 on August 19, 2010, 02:52:07 pm
I deferred for a year, before the census and my academic record says "withdrawn" for all subjects. Ugly >.<
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: monokekie on August 19, 2010, 03:34:10 pm
I deferred for a year, before the census and my academic record says "withdrawn" for all subjects. Ugly >.<

naww~ just make sure that you have some reasonable explanation when ppl see it!
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: Russ on August 19, 2010, 04:00:52 pm

but bear in mind that you might need to explain to your future job/post-grad course interviewers the reason/s of your withdrawal.


yeah, this is why you want it to say "no penalty" or something to that effect
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 19, 2010, 05:18:56 pm
hm I wonder if UoM will find it suss that I have a withdrawn subject when I apply for transfer ><

I'm still kicking myself for not doing midyear transfer.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 19, 2010, 05:43:16 pm

but bear in mind that you might need to explain to your future job/post-grad course interviewers the reason/s of your withdrawal.

Edit: coz I can't type

hmm this will be a bit of a bitch >< My only reason is to potentially boost my WAM for transfer and relax a bit because I'm really not feeling study right now.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: gemgem49 on August 19, 2010, 06:03:14 pm
hm I wonder if UoM will find it suss that I have a withdrawn subject when I apply for transfer ><

I'm still kicking myself for not doing midyear transfer.

Everyone I spoke to (plus myself) who applied for mid year at UoM said it was a massive pain and a lot of calling up to find out what was happening ensued. 2 months after I applied and my application is still 'unassessed'. Go VTAC, woooo reliability!
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 19, 2010, 06:06:17 pm
hm I wonder if UoM will find it suss that I have a withdrawn subject when I apply for transfer ><

I'm still kicking myself for not doing midyear transfer.

Everyone I spoke to (plus myself) who applied for mid year at UoM said it was a massive pain and a lot of calling up to find out what was happening ensued. 2 months after I applied and my application is still 'unassessed'. Go VTAC, woooo reliability!

omfg that's so dodgy =[

Are you still going for end of year transfer VTAC or are you staying at Monash?
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: zhenzhenzhen on August 19, 2010, 06:13:53 pm
lol off topic a little but my application to withdraw from UoM is also still 'unassessed'...rofl
hope that doesn't cause any problems come the end of August
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: gemgem49 on August 19, 2010, 06:14:30 pm
hm I wonder if UoM will find it suss that I have a withdrawn subject when I apply for transfer ><

I'm still kicking myself for not doing midyear transfer.

Everyone I spoke to (plus myself) who applied for mid year at UoM said it was a massive pain and a lot of calling up to find out what was happening ensued. 2 months after I applied and my application is still 'unassessed'. Go VTAC, woooo reliability!

omfg that's so dodgy =[

Are you still going for end of year transfer VTAC or are you staying at Monash?

I'm actually really enjoying Monash so I think I'll stay (even though I think UoM just got a whole lot better by changing the breadth component). I'd ideally like to transfer to RMIT International Studies, but I don't want to have wasted another year only to start from the beginning next year.

In an attempt to stay on topic... lol. Is there any way I can get the 'withdrawn' off my transcript? It looks so messy and I know I didn't defer after the census date.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: gemgem49 on August 19, 2010, 06:15:14 pm
lol off topic a little but my application to withdraw from UoM is also still 'unassessed'...rofl
hope that doesn't cause any problems come the end of August

Ugh, so useless! I seriously called them like 10 times within a month, and the last time they said it was 'with the assessors'.... clearly not -__-
What happens end of August?
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: zhenzhenzhen on August 19, 2010, 06:19:16 pm
lol the census date where they bomb your mail and e-mail with requests to pay fees

but then i dropped out of every subject so I dunno lol
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: Glockmeister on August 20, 2010, 04:07:19 am
hm I wonder if UoM will find it suss that I have a withdrawn subject when I apply for transfer ><

I'm still kicking myself for not doing midyear transfer.

Everyone I spoke to (plus myself) who applied for mid year at UoM said it was a massive pain and a lot of calling up to find out what was happening ensued. 2 months after I applied and my application is still 'unassessed'. Go VTAC, woooo reliability!

omfg that's so dodgy =[

Are you still going for end of year transfer VTAC or are you staying at Monash?

In an attempt to stay on topic... lol. Is there any way I can get the 'withdrawn' off my transcript? It looks so messy and I know I didn't defer after the census date.

I don't think so.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: Fyrefly on August 20, 2010, 07:38:14 pm
In an attempt to stay on topic... lol. Is there any way I can get the 'withdrawn' off my transcript? It looks so messy and I know I didn't defer after the census date.

I don't think so.

What do you mean by "transcript"?

If you mean your online enrolment page, then that discontinued won't go away. It stays on your internal records, and there's nothing you can do about that.

HOWEVER, it doesn't appear on your transcript. By transcript I mean a real transcript that you pay student services $20 for.

I have half a dozen 'withdrawn's on my internal records, since I've changed my units around a few times, but none of these appear on my official transcript because I withdrew from them all before census date.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: gemgem49 on August 20, 2010, 08:50:11 pm
In an attempt to stay on topic... lol. Is there any way I can get the 'withdrawn' off my transcript? It looks so messy and I know I didn't defer after the census date.

I don't think so.

What do you mean by "transcript"?

If you mean your online enrolment page, then that discontinued won't go away. It stays on your internal records, and there's nothing you can do about that.

HOWEVER, it doesn't appear on your transcript. By transcript I mean a real transcript that you pay student services $20 for.

I have half a dozen 'withdrawn's on my internal records, since I've changed my units around a few times, but none of these appear on my official transcript because I withdrew from them all before census date.

I got an official transcrip from monash when I applied for UoM and it DID have withdrawn for those four units.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 20, 2010, 08:57:52 pm
There's an extra cutoff date before census that makes withdrawn appear on your transcript I think. As far as I know there's nothing you can do about it.
Title: Re: Can I drop a subject now with 0 penalty?
Post by: Fyrefly on August 20, 2010, 09:52:10 pm
There's an extra cutoff date before census that makes withdrawn appear on your transcript I think. As far as I know there's nothing you can do about it.

Yeah, you're right.

For this semester, it was August 16th.

http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/sii/principal-dates-2010.html