Yes W’s do not matter as long as it is 3 or less
According to Ms.Sun, it sort of is. How true is this?
Things you should NOT worry about:
An occasional W is not a big deal; the UCs simply disregard them during admission evaluation. If you have a string of Ws, then it’s best if you provide an explanation on your UC application. Please note: you MUST report every W grade you have received on your UC application. Exception: Haas School of Business frowns upon Ws so you MUST provide an explanation if you have any Ws in your major prerequisite requirements.
Oh interesting… At this point all you can do is call haas undergrad admissions and ask.
Not true. I called up Haas undergrad admissions multiple times to ask different people about this issue. As long as you don’t have more than 2 - 3 W’s spread throughout the 2 years, they simply ignore it. However, they did say you should not have more than 1 W in your prereq classes.
@ElevatedThinking Are you willing to post your stats?
@ElevatedThinking Thanks for sharing that. :)>-
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Just saw this thread.
I had my Haas interview two weeks ago. My interviewer was a really nice professor there. They said they could tell I was passionate about finance and business, and that I did my Haas research. I hope the interview was a make or break situation.
@CCCtransfah Now, I am just nervously waiting. I didn’t even get the interview.
It’s kinda scary. Around 100 get acceptances from all of the applicants, and around 70 borderliners got interviewed. I just wonder how many for-sure acceptances there are, and how many get accepted from the interviews.
@CCCtransfah Apparently, Haas subdivided the interview pool into two: one was for borderline applicants, and the other was for students that were 99% accepted, but the admission officers wanted to see that the individual matched the application (there has been multiple cases before where students not fluent in English would turn in amazing applications & essays, obviously written by someone else).
Do you remember what kinds of questions the interviewer asked? I can give you a pretty good estimate of which pile you are in.
@HaasBounded I will release my specific stats after the decisions are out. However, I can tell you that we are all equally competitive, as long as you have over the GPA threshold (3.8). From there on, it’s all about the ECs & essays (which you probably already knew).
@ElevatedThinking Did you call to find that out? Because I hope you’re right, because then interviewers have a good chance if they did well.
Ive heard that one of the biggest weaknesses in an application for some can be a language barrier, its not surprising some would pay serious money to have someone else write the essay 
@CCCtransfah Yeah, I did. It also (vaguely) implies this in one of the emails they sent out.
What would be different about the questions between the two groups?
@CCCTransfah Tell me your specific questions for a better judgment. But in general, the more general/non-specific the questions were, the more likely you are in the second group (99% admitted).
@ElevatedThinking my friend who had the interview (international student) had questions along the lines of: why haas, define leadership, tell me about a time you received negative feedback and how you responded, etc. would you say these are general questions that were probably in the 99% admitted group or in the other?
@ElevatedThinking As an international student, my essay probably wasn’t good enough then.
@HaasBounded Yes, those classify as “general” questions so your friend is likely on the near-admit pool.