'W' on transcript Forum

[kekepania]

Last year, my first year in my graduate program, I took a biochemistry class (unrelated to my masters) because I was still contemplating going to medical school. A few weeks into the semester, my mom got hurt, my responsibilities at home increased significantly, and I was just too tired to commit myself to the biochemistry class while also completing my masters classes and working part-time. I ended up withdrawing from the class.

Obviously this doesn't affect my GPA and I have read that grad school GPA doesn't matter anyway, but admissions still looks at my transcript right? Do you think the W will have a negative effect?

[vanwinkle]

Schools won't care. A single W is kind of normal. Lots of people drop a class along the way and do just fine.

[firecracker10]

I can't believe that you are worried about one single "W"...they won't care.

[kekepania]

Sorry, I'm anal and paranoid It's useless to worry about it anyway...it's not like I can change it.

I guess I never really thought about how many people do withdraw from classes. I know many people drop within the first few weeks, during the no penalty period, but I just figured less people would when a W would appear on their transcript.

Thank you!

[dkt4]

as long as you don't have like 5 Ws or something, no one will even notice.

[ebo]

as long as you don't have like 5 Ws or something, no one will even notice.

I think I had about six on my transcript...freshman and sophomore year were really fun. I still got in everywhere my GPA/LSAT were competitive, and was WL'd or dinged at my reach schools. Didn't seem to affect my cycle at all.

[dkt4]

okay, maybe more

[typ3]

I had 2 W's and a couple P/NP grades.

Columbia didn't seem to care.

[Perdevise]

I hope some can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think law schools see your graduate transcript, only undergraduate. They only see the GPA number for graduate programs, and even that doesn't matter too much (as long as its not drastically lower).

[kekepania]

Well, I have read that graduate school grades don't count in LSDAS app, but I still have to have my transcript sent. Also, I took summer classes during undergrad at the same school I am doing my masters at, so all my grades will be on the transcript anyway.

[firecracker10]

I have an MBA and finished that with a 4.0...and guess what? Law schools don't care about that. All they care about is your UGPA and LSAT--PERIOD.

[Bittner1989]

Bringing up an old thread, but I'm kind of worried about this, as I am seriously considering withdrawing from a class right now, bringing my total up to 3. However, the first two Withdraws were from classes I should have never taken (Korean 101....in a class full of native Korean speakers for the easy A and a 300-level Psychology class when I haven't taken a Psych class since high school)

The third one is for a more serious class related to my major, but spending a bunch of time on my LSAT studies threw me way behind on the course.