Address Shortcomings on SOP?

jmleadpipe
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:18:03 +0000

As Prof. X said, nobody cares about the withdrawal so don’t even mention it. You could have three or four of those before it started becoming an issue, so don’t sweat it.
The GRE is a different matter, as there really isn’t that many reasons to explain away a poor GRE. Your option there are basically to live it as is and not mention it in your SOP or retake. If your score was really awful, I’d think you might want to retake.