Students should see their advisor before proceeding for course withdrawal procedure. 

Students can apply for course withdrawal through the Application for Course Withdrawal program on https://student.metu.edu.tr. If a student who made withdrawal application for a course (even if his advisor approves) wants to give up and apply for withdrawal of another course, within the application dates, the program will cancel the previous application and send an email to the student and his advisor. In this case, the last application has to be approved. Students should follow the approvals of advisors via this program.

Advisors can give their approvals for course withdrawals through the following program: https://sis.metu.edu.tr/. Once a student makes an application, the advisor will be notified via email. The applications that are not approved in due time, will be REJECTED and the student and his advisor will be notified via email.

Course instructors and lecturers will not give approval for course withdrawals.

The status of the withdrawn related courses will be seen as (W) in the system after the advisor approval duration. 

Advisors can approve course withdrawal request after evaluate student's graduation status. If the graduation status is appropriate for course withdrawal, they can approve the request. If the student's status is not appropriate for course withdrawal, but his/her advisor approves the request, s/he will not able to graduate. 

For the rules of course withdrawal stated in the University regulations, please visit the following link: 

https://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/course-withdrawal