How it works
Dropping a course during the add/drop week removes the charge entirely. After that, a withdrawal returns a percentage that steps down each week — commonly 75, then 50, then 25 — until a cutoff after which no tuition is refunded even though a W still replaces the grade. Short-session and Winter Session courses have their own compressed schedule, published with the section.
Aid changes the math
If your enrollment was covering the cost with financial aid, dropping below full time can reduce the aid faster than it reduces the bill, leaving a balance. Federal aid has a separate return calculation for a complete withdrawal before the 60 percent point of the term. Talk to Financial Aid before you drop if aid is involved — the refund and the aid adjustment are two different calculations.
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
Full refund: Through the end of the first week of a standard term. Partial refund: A declining percentage through roughly the fourth week. No refund: After the published date — usually about a quarter of the way into the term. 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.