Academic Counseling

Many traditional and returning students experience academic difficulties of some kind during their college years. Students can meet individually with a counselor to discuss their academic difficulties and learn strategies to help them become better students. The academic counseling complements services provided by departmental advisors. Issues addressed might include semester withdrawal requests, alternative readmission evaluations, poor grades, test anxiety, learning disabilities, dissertation support, study skills, and others. In addition, our staff often offers workshops on a variety of academic topics.

Withdrawal Information and Assistance:

A Semester Withdrawal will withdraw a student from ALL courses in a current or previous semester. If you have been advised to consider or if you wish to find our more information regarding a Semester Withdrawal please click here.

Course Drop Information:

If you have been advised to consider or would like more information regarding the process to drop one or more courses but not all classes from a current or previous semester, please click here.

Information Regarding Academic Suspension:

Students whose GPA drops below a certain level may be placed on Academic Suspension. The North Carolina State University has several established policies which can allow a student to re-enter NC State or work themselves off of Academic Suspension. To find out about the different methods of getting removed from Academic Suspension, click here.

Alternative Readmission Program:

The Alternative Readmission Program offered through the NC State Counseling Center is one option for readmission to the university following a FIRST suspension for academic reasons. If you would like more information regarding the Alternative Readmission Program, click here.

Study Skills:

Developing adequate study skills is a challenge for every learner. Often students enter college and are unprepared for the fact that the study strategies they used in high school no longer seem effective in the college environment. If you would like information regarding study skills and how a counselor at the Counseling Center can work with you to improve your existing skills or introduce new ones, please click here.

Screening for Learning Disability / Attention Deficit Disorder:

College is also a time that learning disability first become noticeable to many students. Often a student's natural abilities have allowed the student to compensate for many learning disabilities prior to college. Now with large class sizes and fast paced lectures, old ways of coping may be breaking down. The staff at the Counseling Center does not have the facilities to diagnose Learning Disabilities, but we can provide a Learning Disability Screening which can provide a wealth of information - including whether a full evaluation would likely be helpful. We can also help with the referral process. If you are interested in learning more, click here.