4 W's - done with UCs and graduate?

Cheolf
Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:20:13 +0000

The UC’s don’t care about the W’s. As far as graduate school, you’re going to want to keep your W’s at 4. They are likely to not pay much heed to them when they see all your W’s were in your first year. 4 is probably the max you could “get away” with before they start asking questions (for grad school).

Getting a B here or there isn’t going to kill you. Just work hard and make it less likely of a possibility! I know that in my case, my two B’s were a result of not studying/doing homework. If I can get a 3.9 with little effort, then surely you can get a 4.0 with the same or a bit more effort!

I would, however, utilize W’s for anything that’s a C or below, even if it does cause you to exceed 4 W’s. But I’m confident you won’t need to do that. Another handy trick is trying to gauge a feel for the class during the first two weeks. You can drop a class before the refund/no W deadline and then it won’t show up on your transcript (I did this for a physical geography course where the professor told us on the first meeting that the students would be creating the tests. Left an hour early and dropped immediately!).

So in summary, just eliminate the likelihood of B’s and try to get a feel for a class before the no W deadline. Good luck!