Is a Withdrawl from Honors Thesis a major red flag?

[NeandertalWoman]

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Hi everyone, I really appreciate your advice in the following situation:

I graduated university with a 3.75 GPA (both cumulative and science) - the only blemish on my transcript is a Voluntary Withdraw in my 8 credit hour Honors thesis course in Chemistry. I subsequently retook the Honors thesis course with a different professor and received an A+ as well as graduated with High Honors.

The reason I withdrew from the first one is simply I didn't get along with my graduate students, and I also didn't put in enough time into it due to my schedule.

Will this withdraw in a research-based course be a major red-flag to the adcoms? Would they wonder why I had to quit a lab in the middle of it? In turn, could this significantly harm my acceptance chances? Thanks very much.

 

[bucks2010]

1. Will this withdraw in a research-based course be a major red-flag to the adcoms?
2. Would they wonder why I had to quit a lab in the middle of it?
3. In turn, could this significantly harm my acceptance chances? Thanks very much.

1. no
2. see 1
3. see 2

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[MedAdComMD]

Hi everyone, I really appreciate your advice in the following situation:

I graduated university with a 3.75 GPA (both cumulative and science) - the only blemish on my transcript is a Voluntary Withdraw in my 8 credit hour Honors thesis course in Chemistry. I subsequently retook the Honors thesis course with a different professor and received an A+ as well as graduated with High Honors.

The reason I withdrew from the first one is simply I didn't get along with my graduate students, and I also didn't put in enough time into it due to my schedule.

Will this withdraw in a research-based course be a major red-flag to the adcoms? Would they wonder why I had to quit a lab in the middle of it? In turn, could this significantly harm my acceptance chances? Thanks very much.

Students withdraw from courses for lots of reasons, if anything comes up just tell them you had a scheduling issues, research wasn't right for you, commuting to it was too far...etc etc

 

[airplanes]

A: No.

 

[deleted357625]

nah its ok

 

[AZFutureDoc]

Greetings from the Caribbean OP!!! I chose to withdraw from writing my honors thesis too, and it worked out great. I got in, and I'm now a student at Ross. The weather is sweet!

 

[Deathstar]

Greetings from the Caribbean OP!!! I chose to withdraw from writing my honors thesis too, and it worked out great. I got in, and I'm now a student at Ross. The weather is sweet!

Nothing beats studying and then going to the beach after.

 

[Political]

Greetings from the Caribbean OP!!! I chose to withdraw from writing my honors thesis too, and it worked out great. I got in, and I'm now a student at Ross. The weather is sweet!

obvious troll is obvious