{"id":2300,"date":"2025-09-22T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:19:09","slug":"to-drop-or-not-to-drop-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/09\/22\/to-drop-or-not-to-drop-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Drop, or Not to Drop\u2013That Is the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Photo by: Baptiste Raffin)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Dropping a class can be an intimidating prospect, and with being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jccc.edu\/admissions\/enrollment\/drop\/drop-dates-fall.html\">Last day to drop with no refund and no &#8216;W&#8217; on transcript,<\/a>\u201d for many classes, some students might be unsure of where to begin. First, consider whether you are receiving any form of financial aid. According to JCCC\u2019s page on dropping credit classes, \u201cIf you are receiving financial aid and drop courses, you may be required to repay all or part of the financial aid disbursed for the semester.\u201d For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jccc.edu\/admissions\/financial-aid\/maintaining-aid\/repayment.html\">Dropping Classes and Repayment<\/a> page on their website.<\/p>\n<p>As for the drop deadlines, specifically for Fall 2025 credit classes, whether you can drop a class with a 100% refund, no refund and no \u201cW\u201d on your transcript, or with a \u201cW\u201d on your transcript, depends on when your class start<strong>s<\/strong> and end<strong>s<\/strong>, as well as how many weeks the course lasts. Refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jccc.edu\/admissions\/enrollment\/drop\/drop-dates-fall.html\">JCCC\u2019s Fall Drop Dates<\/a> page to determine which set of deadlines best describes the class you\u2019re trying to drop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; McKenna Daugherty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping a class can be an intimidating prospect, and with being \u201cLast day to drop with no refund and no &#8216;W&#8217; on transcript,\u201d for many classes, some students might be unsure of where to begin. First, consider whether you are receiving any form of financial aid. According to JCCC\u2019s page on dropping credit classes, \u201cIf you are receiving financial aid and drop courses, you may be required to repay all or part of the financial aid disbursed for the semester.\u201d For more information, visit the Dropping Classes and Repayment page on their website.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[124],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Messenger Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/09\/IMG_3691.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/","display_name":"Messenger Staff"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 months ago","modified":"Updated 12 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 22, 2025","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 22, 2025 12:19 pm","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025 12:19 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":124,"user_id":1000,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhumph18","display_name":"Messenger Staff","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d550cfefcbdb3d51b5ca80ce32ea21defada2724e3cd6d8373f27c880e25be9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Messenger","last_name":"Staff","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/09\/IMG_3691.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}