W's on transcript

[amazing tekkers]

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After graduation, I signed up for some summer classes last year at a university. I never attended as I didn't have the time because of a job and personal issues. I didn't know how to drop the classes so I never bothered. The university dropped the courses and now I have Ws on my transcript.

Will this affect me later during the admission process? This is before I started college. Thanks for any input.

 

[Loveless]

Wow, you're lucky! At my school, if you don't drop the class yourself, you automatically get an F.

I assume you got two Ws? You might be asked, but it seems you have a good explanation, so I doubt it's going to matter.

 

[CjOz]

I had like 4 or 5 W's on my transcript and I turned out fine.

 

[amazing tekkers]

Wow, you're lucky! At my school, if you don't drop the class yourself, you automatically get an F.

I assume you got two Ws? You might be asked, but it seems you have a good explanation, so I doubt it's going to matter.

Wow that sucks. And yes I got two Ws.

 

[Imogen]

I tried search but nothing similar.

After graduation, I signed up for some summer classes last year at a university. I never attended as I didn't have the time because of a job and personal issues. I didn't know how to drop the classes so I never bothered. The university dropped the courses and now I have Ws on my transcript.

Will this affect me later during the admission process? This is before I started college. Thanks for any input.

I had, I think, 8 Ws on my transcript from DURING college (medical condition). I got accepted to 7 medical schools despite this. First of all, hopefully med schools will realize that your withdraws occurred before you even started college. If they don't I would try to point this out somewhere on your application (if you have space). Secondly, sometimes people withdraw from stuff, because life happens. If your grades are good and you don't show some unexplained pattern of repeat Ws, I don't think this is going to matter one bit.

It might be worth contacting the school that issued the Ws and ask them if you can petition to have them dropped or something. If you truly never attended the classes, and never attended the school, maybe they'll let you.

 

[OCDOCDOCD]

I had, I think, 8 Ws on my transcript from DURING college (medical condition). I got accepted to 7 medical schools despite this. First of all, hopefully med schools will realize that your withdraws occurred before you even started college. If they don't I would try to point this out somewhere on your application (if you have space). Secondly, sometimes people withdraw from stuff, because life happens. If your grades are good and you don't show some unexplained pattern of repeat Ws, I don't think this is going to matter one bit.

It might be worth contacting the school that issued the Ws and ask them if you can petition to have them dropped or something. If you truly never attended the classes, and never attended the school, maybe they'll let you.

Just FYI, medical withdrawals are a completely different animal from normal withdrawals. You could have twice as many W's as you have actual grades, and if they're all due to medical reasons, no one is going to hold them against you (assuming you're no longer affected by whatever made you so incapacitated).

 

[pre med 2014]

Just don't tell adcomms you 'didn't bother' to drop the classes. Sounds irresponsible.