Course Withdrawals

[gnin]

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I'm a premed student who has a decent gpa from an ivy league college. My major worry is that I have three grades of "withdraw" on my transcript. Two of these withdrawals were during the spring of my sophomore year, when I was hospitalized for serious health problems, and had to petition the college administration to withdraw from these courses becuase I had missed so much class. None of these withdrawals were in premed classes. I also took two voluntary leaves of absence, one partly through into a semester, to help work and support my family, which was in financial turmoil becasue my dad had lost his job. Given the reasons for these aspects of my academic background, do you think any of this will be seen in a negative light by med schools?

 

[randallB]

Normally, frequent "W's" on the transcript are frowned upon, but you have substantial explanations for these marks. Additionally, they're not in premed courses, which makes it all the better. I don't think it will present much of a problem, provided that the idea of stopping a course isn't something that will happen again.

Best of luck

 

[jlee9531]

there are a lot of people that have been accepted with Ws. Its nothing rare, and you obviously have acceptable reasons for having them so don't even think twice about it.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Even if it did hurt you, that wouldn't stop you from applying, right? 😉

 

[gnin]

Even if it did hurt you, that wouldn't stop you from applying, right? 😉

Yes, but since I haven't taken all my science classes, I need to do a postbacc course before applying. This would be a major investment of time/money, so I don't want to do it unless I know that my chances for med school aren't already jeopardized by this.

 

[gnin]

Correction on an earlier statement, I believe one of the classes I withdrew from was a science class, but I retook it in a later term and got an "A." Also, withdrawals are relatively rare at my school, but I don't think my references would mention this to med schools.

 

[SuziQ]

Yea, I definitely agree...Ws can be a problem but you will just have to explain your situation and it will be fine!

 

[Medikit]

For the record I have 9 or 10 W's

 

[nubianneprinces]

For the record I have 9 or 10 W's

mediokit r u in medskool?

 

[Shades McCool]

I had 2 and got in ED.