Students will have 22 calendar days after and including the first day of classes to drop a class without the class appearing on their transcript. To give students more time to evaluate and drop classes, the university also is lengthening the drop period through day 22 of the semester. As Mason students are more likely to be successful if they are registered and attending a class early in the semester, we are implementing this change, in part, to encourage students to commit to their course registration early in the term.