Strategy Eval: Load up flat fee, then withdraw for no additional cost.

[StudentOLife]

I'm about to take TESU course for the first time to finish my degree. I'd like to register for 16 full credits, then drop capstone (worst case conerstone too) at day 21 if I can't handle it. Since there's no refund for flat fee anyways, there's no financial loss I figure it could be worth a punt.


I'm very lucky and get to switch to part-time work (reducing by 25%) in the full duration of these courses, assuming each credit is 14hrs over the duration of ~80 day is about 224 hours of work required. Approximately 2.8hrs a day which I think I can do, or at least try. 

To help myself I:

• May leverage course extensions
  
• 3 UL Math & PLA: Pre-study calculus 3, brush up on geometry, pray that math history & PLA is not too hard
  
• Cornerstone: use previous writing assessment(from Sophia)
  

Questions:

1. Wonder if this is a viable strategy? (Has anyone attempted this before)
   
2. Will withdrawing at 21 days impact GPA?