Withdrawal (W) deadline dates are listed at www.mcgill.ca/importantdates. The health profession programs described in this Calendar are highly structured and students should consult their adviser or Student Affairs Office to determine what course changes, if any, are allowed. Note 1 below is not applicable to Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing. For information, you should refer to your Faculty/School section in this publication.
1. To withdraw from required or complementary courses after the withdrawal (without refund) deadline, you may need to obtain permission from your adviser, and you must fill out and submit a course withdrawal form, available from your Faculty Student Affairs Office. Additional restrictions for Music courses are indicated in the
eCalendar under
Faculties & Schools >
Schulich School of Music.
2. It is solely your responsibility to initiate a course withdrawal on Minerva. Neither notification of the course instructor nor discontinuing class attendance is sufficient. The date on which you withdraw on Minerva is the official date of withdrawal, even if you had stopped attending lectures earlier.
3. You may still withdraw from a course after the Course Change deadline without academic penalty provided that you do so within the appropriate withdrawal deadlines for the term. Otherwise, after this time, your name will continue to appear on the class list and grade reports and, in the event that you do not take the exam, you will be given a J grade.