Grade drops for admissions - UW M

Midwestmomofboys
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:01:58 +0000

As long as you are looking at Cs, not Ds, and they don’t dominate the semester (like all Cs), then you should be fine.

Don’t beat yourself up about admission – you got in, you can do the work. Do think about your fall semester classes so that have a structure for success – for instance, don’t try to knock off a lot of gen eds/distribution requirements in the areas where you historically have been weaker. (For my kid, it was math/science, and he took neither his first semester). If you are looking for ways to “study strong” at UW, you might look at the First Year Interest Groups as they provide a structure where you have 2-3 classes together with the same group of about 20 students, forming ready-made study groups. Other advice: read the syllabus, enter key dates on your calendar with alerts; don’t skip class; don’t get so caught up in the “work hard, play hard” mentality that the “work hard” part gets less attention. Congrats, UW is an amazing place!