Withdrawl After Acceptance

[BCN04]

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I was thankfully accepted into a T10 med school today earlier this week, but I had a question about a W I received last semester. Essentially long story short, I had to withdraw from my senior thesis class that was an elective, not prereq. I wrote on my 1° application about my thesis writing, but unfortunately I was not able to finish because a variety of reasons (I also mentioned this to my interviewer when he asked).

Essentially, I was wondering if this could cause me to have my A revoked? And also, would you all recommend reaching out to schools I received an A from to tell them about the W? Or just send in my transcript at the end of the year and hope they don't see it/don't care?

fyi - i have no other Ws on my app and a 4.0 (not trying to flex, but I've read it might be worse seeing a W if it looks like I'm trying to avoid getting a lower grade)

And if anyone has an experience with something similar, could I please reach out to you? 🙂

 

[LizzyM]

You withdrew from an elective class that was pretty important to you. Send your transcript when it is requested. No one will care as long as the "degree awarded" stamp is on that transcript.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Read your enrollment contract, and disclose your new grades if you have to. Just remember that admissions committees HATE surprises. I don't think this W would qualify as being something that would cause a committee to rescind your offer, but I don't know your school.

If you already mentioned this in an interview, you probably have nothing to worry about, but...

 

[BCN04]

Read your enrollment contract, and disclose your new grades if you have to. Just remember that admissions committees HATE surprises. I don't think this W would qualify as being something that would cause a committee to rescind your offer, but I don't know your school.

If you already mentioned this in an interview, you probably have nothing to worry about, but...

Thank you for the response 🙂 In the acceptance letter for the school it says my acceptance is contingent on "completion of all prerequisites prior to matriculation...in addition to continued appropriate professional conduct and fitness." Based on that, would you still recommend reaching out to the admissions committe to inform them of the W?

 

[BCN04]

You withdrew from an elective class that was pretty important to you. Send your transcript when it is requested. No one will care as long as the "degree awarded" stamp is on that transcript.

Thank you for your advice and input!!!