When it applies
A medical withdrawal is for a term derailed by a health crisis — hospitalization, a new diagnosis, a family member's illness that becomes yours to manage. It removes the term's grades, replaces them with a W notation, and can trigger a partial tuition refund on a schedule the Bursar sets. It is deliberately all-or-nothing; dropping one hard course is a regular withdrawal.
Coming back
Return from a medical withdrawal runs through the Dean of Students, who asks for a brief note from a provider indicating the student is ready to resume full-time study. This is not a diagnosis disclosure — it is a readiness check — and the office can arrange a reduced load or a check-in schedule for the first term back.
In and around Porter Falls
The Porter Student Help Desk in Founders Union 118 is the single place to start when it is not obvious which office owns a question.
The practical details
Scope: All courses in the term — a medical withdrawal is not selective. Documentation: A letter from a treating provider, submitted to the Dean of Students. Deadline: As late as the last day of classes for the term in question. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Porter Student Help Desk (Founders Union, Room 118). Call (715) 555–0120 or email help@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.