Do W's look bad in my context?

[Deleted member 1077394]

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I don't want to talk about it much, but I have been having personal problems and am not getting much sleep and waking up every 2 hours at night.

I was so exhausted that I slept straight through 3 alarm clocks this morning, causing me to sleep through an exam.

I've been feeling overwhelmed for awhile.

It's not a prereq, but I need to W that class I slept through an exam in. Too, that'll lighten my load with school so I can deal with my other current life circumstances. I read Moko's post in another thread regarding a student who has even more going on than I do and that made me feel a little better about probably having to take a W.

I have an obscene number of W's on my record (most of that number came from a few full-semester withdrawals) due to poor epilepsy control my freshman and sophomore years. I'm a first semester senior now and doing a lot better in that regard. This is unrelated.

Do you think it looks bad to take another W in context here? I feel like I am on thin ice and don't want to do anything to screw up my own life here.

 

[Goro]

A single W like this won't be a concern. It's seeing them peppered throughout a transcript that hints at GPA preservation.

A sea of them in single semester implies what Ws are for; that one had problems that needed taking care of.

 

[Deleted member 1077394]

A single W like this won't be a concern. It's seeing them peppered throughout a transcript that hints at GPA preservation.

A sea of them in single semester implies what Ws are for; that one had problems that needed taking care of.

Thank you, Goro. 🙂 Give your kitty some extra pets for me. 🙂

 

[Blueprint Med School]

Yeah, so much of this will be about answering the question in your application before it even needs to be asked. Most adcoms are reasonable people, so if you satiate the incongruency with something that makes sense then you will be fine. When you write your personal statement, give thought to mentioning it somewhere along the way, and for sure include it in any "Is there anything additional you would like us to know about you?" questions on secondaries.


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