Anybody not accepted because of W's ?

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Was anybody here not accepted because of 3 or More W's on there transcript? i am worried because i have 3 and i'm only a sophomore
 
ohdangevo said:
Was anybody here not accepted because of 3 or More W's on there transcript? i am worried because i have 3 and i'm only a sophomore

I had more and got in. Like 6. But the story may be different. Back in the '80s, my state school only charged up to 12 hours. Anything over was free, so I always took 1 more class than I intended to keep. That was during my first few years. It seemed like you would always pull one crappy prof each semester in lower division classes.

Then again, med school wasn't on my mind at the time. I would minimize the W's. Grades and MCAT will override them though. If the second attempt is a crappy grade, that could raise some questions.
 
Although I'm still on waitlists, my situation isn't pretty... and it's partly due to withdrawals. My situation is a little unique, because my undergraduate school doesn't list W's on the official transcript. Being the Pollyanna that I am, I went ahead and put them on my AMCAS. Well... during processing, they magically changed from W's to F's. I spent months trying to get them changed back or removed... but, AMCAS wouldn't do it, mostly because they didn't appear on my official transcript. I got letters from the professors saying I had not flunked, and it still didn't help. It was a nightmare, and it ended up lowering my science GPA by about .3 points and delaying my secondaries two months.

My advice: Don't withdraw from anything. If you're serious about medical school as a college sophomore, take the easiest science classes you can find junior year to boost up that GPA. Take summer classes at community college if you have to. Remember, Geology for English Majors is counted in your science GPA just as much as Biochemistry.
 
my school puts W's on the transcript? I thought W's wasn't factored into the AMCAS gpa ? Why the hell would a W be turned into an F on AMCAS ? I think thats an error and not a rule ......
 
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