<p>I’m a rising Junior and a transfer student who wants to attend graduate school to pursue a PHd in English. Due to costs, I spent my freshman year at a local state school where I got a pretty decent scholarship. Everything went well. I was a member of the honors college, did research, presented said research, and pulled off a 4.0, all the while taking a Physics class one semester and a Biology course the next. </p>
<p>Still, although I was doing well academically, I was very unhappy socially (something pretty common throughout my life). I had made no friends and was very depressed, so I decided to transfer to a more “elite” school in the hopes that I would meet more people like myself and find a more intellectually stimulating environment. After being granted admittance to a top 20 for my Sophomore year, I set out to finish the GERs at my new school. I made the mistake that first semester, however, of taking another lab science course – after some bad advising – something that was completely unnecessary. After speaking to a more reliable advisor who told me one “W” wouldn’t affect my graduate school admissions, I dropped the course. Unfortunately, that same semester I took an introductory level statistics course and although I worked hard, I only ended up with the average grade in the class, which was a B-.</p>
<p>That first semester I ended up with a 3.567 with one ‘W’ and one ‘B-’ and two ‘As’. This most recent semester, one in which I took all writing courses, I ended up with a 3.85, for a cumulative GPA of 3.73. My question is: Provided I do well these next semesters, will that ‘W’ and ‘B-’ prevent me from getting into top graduate programs? I know they’re not related to my intended area of study, but I’m afraid the gradcoms will think I’m not a well-rounded student. Please help.</p>