Total Withdrawal

Under extraordinary circumstances, graduate students may petitions for total withdrawal from a given semester. The Graduate School will only consider cases where the student or department (on the student’s behalf) can document

  • lengthy medical incapacitation of the student or a member of the student’s family or
  • death of a student’s immediate family member or
  • military orders issued to a student or
  • other similarly extraordinary measures as petitioned by the student

Total withdrawal is for the entirety of a student’s registration in that semester (i.e. these cases are considered on an all or nothing basis). The deadline for graduate students to submit petitions for total withdrawal is the end of the subsequent academic semester. The Graduate School reserves the right to consult members of the faculty and others as appropriate when reviewing total withdrawal cases.

Total withdrawal from the semester will be indicated on the transcript by the symbol “W” (withdrawal) next to each course registered. For the purposes of determining Academic Good Standing, courses given “W” grades will not count as having been attempted.