<p>How many w’s have you had and still got accepted into grad school?</p>
<p>1 here…</p>
<p>1 here too</p>
<p>Applying for next Fall, and I have… 3 (not counting medical ones). o_O</p>
<p>A metric ton. No, seriously… like, probably 5-10, plus a smattering of Fs.</p>
<p>They’re not looking for perfection.</p>
<p>A couple of F’s and two W’s, made early on in my college career (i.e. before I grew up). The vast majority of my grades have been A’s and B’s. Now pursuing a Masters in Mechanical Engineering.</p>
<p>I had 1 W.</p>
<p>Wow this makes me feel so much better about the one course I failed (it was an elective, in CS). Hopefully given that the 1 F was an elective plus that I have no Ws, the F wont keep me (and people with similar situations) from getting into a great program.</p>
<p>Would help to retake it anyway.</p>
<p>1 W, 2 grad school acceptances so far. Was never asked a question about it during an interview.</p>
<p>1 W (in a non-major course). Accepted to Stanford Biosciences. Clearly they didn’t care.</p>
<p>I got 2 W’s, both in my major. One was a course in the specific subfield my grad program is in. I got in (last year) to multiple top 30 programs.</p>
<p>Two.</p>
<p>It’s not that they don’t care, it’s that other factors in your application outweigh one or two Ws and even the occasional F.</p>
<p>I had 8 of them (along with 3 0.0’s) and a 3.16 GPA and I still got top student fellowships at UChicago and Brown (I was also paid to visit Yale too but only didn’t get in due to research fit issues). And in my personal statement I attributed them to wasting too much time on the Internet and on Wikipedia. </p>
<p>If you’re REALLY strong in something (strong enough to win those fellowships to begin with), then they’ll find ways to explain those poor grades away.</p>
<p>That said, I was an early entrance student so it’s kind of different.</p>
<p>I had an F on my transcript and I got into Columbia, Brown, UCLA, Wisconsin for math.</p>
<p>8 W’s here as well, with an acceptance to Vanderbilt. 5 were in 2004, then another 3 in 2008. However, I have had a “W” free record since, graduating with a 3.6.</p>
<p>Hey dong_xie, if you dont mind me asking, what was your GPA (overall and major). I also have failed one course and am looking at Columbia, Brown, and UCLA (but for an MPA or MA in Econ program, not math). Furthermore, if you dont mind, could you tell me what school you had graduated (undergrad)? Thanks!</p>
<p>My overall GPA is 3.88, and my math GPA is 3.95. I go to a large state school (highly ranked in math).</p>