Data provided by the Office of Budget and Planning shows the classes with the greatest percentages of student withdrawals in the past four semesters.
The data represents the percentage of students enrolled in the class who withdrew from the courses after the final date to add or drop a course without a withdrawal, or W, listed on their transcripts.
Because each class is a different size, the percentages represent the ratio of students who withdrew to the number of students first enrolled in the class.
According to the LSU W Grade Policy, students are allowed to withdraw from three courses when they have less than 60 credit hours and are given another three Ws when they are between 60 and 119 hours. After 119 credit hours, students are allowed one W. The Ws do not rollover .
Withdrawals listed on transcripts do not affect students’ overall grade point average.