[natbennett]

This is missing a possible explanation: Anyone who’s not getting an “A” in Gender Studies drops it.

I don’t know if this is true generally but it was the only class I personally ever dropped in college because the workload was too high. Huge final paper with a lot of required references. I didn’t need it to graduate so it wasn’t worth finishing.

[musicale]

If a humanities or social science course isn't directly applicable to your major/getting a job/getting into grad school and is going to put a blemish on your transcript, I could certainly imagine that you might want to drop it.