As a warning for entering freshman parents, make sure your kid is fully engaged with the advisor when selecting classes and inquire frequently with him and understand the deadlines for adding/dropping and withdrawing courses. Some of the smaller schools, the professors are also advisors and they are not equally competent. My kid was placed in a class he was not prepared for due to a generalized placement test score. His advisor told him to seek the resources available (peer tutoring, student resources and extra help with the professor) when he told her of his struggles (having to go to the into class lessons, not understanding the formulas used as he never had the appropriate math course). She told him to continue to his course which he sacrificed studying time from other classes it started to affect his other classes. At the drop add deadline, his advisor rejected his request to drop and replace that class with the introduction course and instructed him he was not allowed to do and to grind and use the pass fail mechanism even after being told by the kid he is going to fail as he cannot keep up. At the the withdrawal deadline both his professor, Dean and student service all advised him to drop. His athletic advisor and coach told him if he fails that course and does not ace the remaining 3 he will not be eligible for spring sports. Of course he then goes to the dean of advising and tells us. We reach out to the Dean of student services who investigates this further and finds out kid was eligible for the intro course and should have been given that opportunity during class selection and more importantly during the add drop period to change. They apologized and will look into why this happened. So his only option is to withdraw, maybe take a partial credit course (they have course that begin in mid term in this college, weird but good for him) and it did not affect his athletic standing. Kid was miserable for the past 6 weeks with this class and of course we were outraged given all the redundancy and resources this was allowed to happen as there were multiple emails and face to face meetings with the advisor. He is doing better now, but I want to remind those rising freshman parents to be aware and ready to step in.