Course Withdrawals

[sunqueen]

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I have a ton of withdrawals, mainly from my first two years of community college. I goofed off and didn't take school seriously. Then I had to take a medical withdrawal for my first semester of college (hospitalized). After a slow start back and a change of major due to boredom (communications to biology) I have withdrawn from two courses.

However, between the withdrawals I have almost straight A's and my overall gpa is a 3.88 and my science gpa is a 4.0. What do you think?

 

[mute360_CO]

This is basically the same scenario I had as an undergrad (except for the medical withdraw). I too had several W's on my transcript. My strategy was to sign up for a class load I thought I could handle and then drop one class(and re-take it later) if it was too much. I worked 20+ hrs through undergrad and so it was a pretty tough schedule. I always was full time, though, after the withdrawls.

Sunqueen, did you work in this time? Did you remain full time?

If so, this would help your case. I think its better to live life to its fullest and forget about gunnin' anyway 🙂 . But IMO it really doesn't matter considering your "turning point" as your friends put it. Not only that but this happened early in your college career and adcoms recognize this. They even look for progression of academics and maturity. The medical withdrawal definitely would not be a negative factor.

So much more goes into your qualifications for acceptance like motivation, EC's, LOR's, and MCAT.

 

[sunqueen]

That's pretty much what I did as well. This past semester I signed on for 25 hours (trying to catch up) and had to drop two of them. I did work occasionally, but that really wasn't the issue. I just goofed off some of the time and also had an illness that went undiagnosed for many years and often set me back often in the middle of a semester. Some of the semesters I remained full time and others I only finished up a few classes. I never knew that withdrawals would hurt me until a year ago- too late to change it now. I am just hoping to keep up my GPA and do well enough on the MCAT that it is overlooked 🙂.

 

[UrSexyLatinDr21]

Hey sunqueen whats your email address? Let me know it please...

Eduardo

 

[sunqueen]

I'll PM you with it.

 

[sunqueen]

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?