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<p>nspeds I guess after all the bickering....we finally agree on one issue.</p>

<p>top schools don't care if you have 1, and possibly 2... once you get 3 and up, you better have a good reason.</p>

<p>I've talked to advisers from NYU, UPenn and Dartmouth. So no need to worry if it's just one.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that my Ws were from summer courses. I actually overloaded on courses during the regular academic year. So in the end, I applied with about 24 credits under my belt, even though I had two Ws.</p>

<p>If you have a W, and that means you will only be applying with, say, 12 credits completed, that might be bad – not so much because of the W, but because you don't have enough courses as a result, and didn't challenge yourself enough.</p>

<p>I had one W, that was from Chemistry because I was majoring in Biology at that time. Now that I switched from science to the field of Liberal Arts that credit from Chemistry was not necessary considering I already fufilled my basic science credits of 8, this was following a semester in which I took seven courses i.e english 2322, Calculus, Physics, Statistics, Early Music Theory, Microbiology, and Networking and made the dean's list.</p>

<p>Yeah I was thinking about putting that down in the "extra info" section of grad school admissions, but then is it worth it to bring "extra" attention to the "W" with a letter explaining the circumstances?</p>

<p>Also, someone mentioned they had more trouble with private schools; yeah, well that would be where I'm looking at, Notre Dame, so what do you think...just pray they don't put too much focus on that, or do you think I should make a note of it in the extra info section with a small half page letter explaining the circumstances, assuming that they are going to weigh it more heavily because private schools seem to.</p>