cspoon1126

I'm an english major trying to transfer next fall, hopefully to UCSC. Some of my other choices are USF, Portland State, U of Oregon, UWashington, and Evergreen State. I'm finishing up my 3rd year at a California CC and I have a 3.2 GPA. I'm really worried that I have too many withdrawals on my transcript. I made one of the W's up, but the other classes were pretty irrelevant to my major or else I'd go back and take them...but I'm running out of time with only one semester left before transferring. I've heard that W's aren't that big of a deal as long as you explain them and show improvement... but I had to withdraw from yet another class this semester (applying in November), so I'm worried it's still going to look pretty bad. Now I have at least one W for almost every semester that I've been at my CC. Any advice? Anyone out there gotten into these schools with excessive W's? Help! I'm really worried

emprex

Do you have a good reason for the W's? Most UC's generally don't care but that doesn't mean they may not ask or be curious. I had 5 W's in a span of 1 year but I made 4 of them up and they were all because of a verifiable illness and UC Davis was okay with this. I think UCSC will be okay with it as long as you have a good reason.

xdestinee619x

haha what if you don't? i've had 4 Ws because of busy work schedule. I really don't think that's a good excuse so I didnt write it. But that was the reason. Anyway, I made it all up so hopefully they still consider me.

Also they have a comment box at the end of the TAG application. Is it necessary to write on it? I didn't. I felt that I should have wrote a reason as to why I got those ws but I really didn't want to make excuses because I know I could have scheduled my time more effectively but didn't. so I left it blank. was that a bad decision?