<p>I am curious to know how many people have transferred to places in the same vain as reed, williams, MIT, uchicago and northwestern with one or more W on their transcript and only one year at a community college or state university. </p>
<p>I assume one's reason or explanation for the W's on the "additional comments" plays a major role</p>
<p>I hav a W too. and am kinda worried:/// wonder how badly it will look on transcript.</p>
<p>Are these withdrawals with or without academic penalty?</p>
<p>Honestly, I think as long as you still took a decent course load (30 hours in the entire year), I don’t see why they would penalize you for it. Everyone has had a course they’ve hated - the AdCoom ARE people too…</p>
<p>@collegebatman: Thanks! mine s just a withdrawl. i dont think its with penalty. i m gonna take one more course next term to make up the credit. i hope that wont impede my application</p>
<p>I believe the issue of transfer will be weighted more on the fact it is a soph transfer than the W - because most colleges will look heavily at the HS stats for a soph transfer. It makes sense… because the college only gets to see one semester of grades from the fall semester before making a decision and thus the student is transcript/experience-wise barely a college student.</p>
<p>That said, if the college only gets to see one semester of college grades, and there is one or two Ws on that one semester of college grades, it just doesn’t look that good. Mostly, because the student has not yet proven to anyone that he/she can handle the rigors of fulltime college studies. The best the transcript says is the student can handle part-time college study since it is likely the Ws have dropped his/her practical status down to part-time level.</p>
<p>The Ws don’t disqualify a student, but the transcript doesn’t shine. If you don’t get in as a soph transfer, try again as a junior transfer when the college can see 3 semesters worth of grades (hopefully with no more Ws).</p>