<p>How bad do two Ws look on my transcript of neither apply to my major? and are 1 year apart? I also will have 50 units done by the end of this semester</p>
<p>They probably won’t affect much of anything. Depends on school and major. That said if you’re probably going to be OK.</p>
<p>3.0+ you’ll probably be OK for UCI, UCD and UCSB and for 3.3+ you’ll be OK for UCSD. LA and B really depend.</p>
<p>3.54GPA here and I got into UCI, UCSB and UCR(along with CSUF and CSULB) in my first choice major. Didn’t apply elsewhere but likely would’ve been in at UCSD and UCD too. I failed calc2 hardcore long story lots of crazy BS, still got in everywhere. Ohh and I had a W in calc 1 from when I took it at age 16</p>
<p>I got into LA and Berkeley with 6 W’s, 5 in the same semester.</p>
<p>Yeah, 2 W’s don’t matter, and there are plenty of anecdotal stories of students with 8 W’s and 4 F’s, but a respectable overall GPA, getting accepted to Cal and UCLA. Those are obviously the extreme cases, which is why you’re pretty safe with 2 W’s.</p>
<p>Now, if it’s a situation where two students have the <em>exact same</em> application, aside from one student having 2 W’s, and only one can be accepted, they’ll take the student without the W’s. But this assumes the personal statements are identical, and they wouldn’t be. I suspect in such a case the personal statements would be the deciding factor, still with little importance given to the W’s.</p>
<p>I’m going to assume that the OP means W’s for only UCs, to which I say, read the FAQ thread.</p>
<p>in TAG i put that the class was in-progress. do i need to notify anyone that im withdrawing or just send my transcripts at the end of fall?</p>
<p>Ws are no problem, it’s dropping/failing prereqs that can’t be retaken during the time (eg in the spring semester) that tend to cause issues, but… yea…</p>
<p>@ alanav09</p>
<p>Notify them in late Dec/Jan when the update comes. As long as you didn’t drop a pre-req or required GE class it won’t matter.</p>
<p>Only private schools care about W’s.</p>
<p>Last time I applied to UCSD, white vans showed up at my house at 3am and they demanded to know why I had 2 Ws on my record.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>lol jk</p>
<p>Is there an option to get w’s? And why is it so bad?</p>
<p>Some people (some who have worked for UCs, albeit NOT admissions reps!) even have a lot of misconceptions about Ws.</p>
<p>When you take a class, there’s usually 3 drop dates:
1st: The one where you can get your money back
2nd: The one where you might, but they also don’t record that you ever took the class on your transcript
3rd: You can drop, but it will show on your record that you attempted the class. W = withdrawn</p>
<p>Some people think that in some cases, UCs treat Ws as Fs (and as far as I can tell, this isn’t the case. If you have a constant history of getting As littered with Ws that may be a problem, but if the Ws are random and for various reasons there’s nothing to worry about (at all).</p>