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Hello all,
Upon reviewing the PDF copy of my Professional Transcript Entry – I have noticed that every single undergraduate course I have taken is listed as “Lecture Only” – including those that are listed as exclusively laboratory courses (e.g. Biochemistry Laboratory, listed and graded as a separate course from Biochemistry Lecture, is listed as “Lecture Only” when it is inherently a laboratory-only component…). While the pre-requisite courses with seperated laboratory components on my transcript do not worry me as much (I presume that adcom’s could tell that separate courses containing a title with "Laboratory" in my official transcript under Orgo/Biochem/etc. were exclusively laboratory classes), I am worried that I will be screened-out pre-interview because other basic science classes that included laboratory components but were not listed seperately, such as Biology, Gen Chem, etc., are listed as “Lecture Only”. Is this a common problem? I reached out to AACOMAS regarding this problem earlier in September and they simply requested a link to my undergraduate universities’ course catalog. After replying with the affected courses and a link to my official course catalog weeks ago, and not receiving any changes or updates, I reached-out again recently for a status update – upon which they responded yesterday with an email that seemed like the same generic response again asking for my course catalog. I have already submitted and been marked as complete at a multitude of schools before I noticed this discrepancy. Would it be in my best interest to reach-out to these schools’ admissions departments and explain this problem and clarify which pre-requisites (and higher-level science) courses contained laboratory components? If so, should I mention that this misstep is being addressed by AACOMAS?
Any comments or experience with this problem is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
-RC
@Goro
Upon reviewing the PDF copy of my Professional Transcript Entry – I have noticed that every single undergraduate course I have taken is listed as “Lecture Only” – including those that are listed as exclusively laboratory courses (e.g. Biochemistry Laboratory, listed and graded as a separate course from Biochemistry Lecture, is listed as “Lecture Only” when it is inherently a laboratory-only component…). While the pre-requisite courses with seperated laboratory components on my transcript do not worry me as much (I presume that adcom’s could tell that separate courses containing a title with "Laboratory" in my official transcript under Orgo/Biochem/etc. were exclusively laboratory classes), I am worried that I will be screened-out pre-interview because other basic science classes that included laboratory components but were not listed seperately, such as Biology, Gen Chem, etc., are listed as “Lecture Only”. Is this a common problem? I reached out to AACOMAS regarding this problem earlier in September and they simply requested a link to my undergraduate universities’ course catalog. After replying with the affected courses and a link to my official course catalog weeks ago, and not receiving any changes or updates, I reached-out again recently for a status update – upon which they responded yesterday with an email that seemed like the same generic response again asking for my course catalog. I have already submitted and been marked as complete at a multitude of schools before I noticed this discrepancy. Would it be in my best interest to reach-out to these schools’ admissions departments and explain this problem and clarify which pre-requisites (and higher-level science) courses contained laboratory components? If so, should I mention that this misstep is being addressed by AACOMAS?
Any comments or experience with this problem is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
-RC
@Goro