COURSE UNITS to CREDITS!?

[Chrissy]

Calling all Penn students or anyone who uses course units instead of credits. How do we enter "course units" into AAMCAS/AACOMAS? Penn's premed website states to put "1" and amcas already has an explanation from the Penn Registrar. I have already gone through and put 3 because that's what they're gonna equate to anyway....does anyone have a similar situation?

is it the same for AACOMAS?

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[RoadRunner17]

I'm a post-bac at Penn, and my advisor told me to convert it up front. So, 1 cu is 3 credit hours, and a 0.5 cu lab is 1.5 credit hours.

Weird, I know.. hopefully she knows what she's talking about. Someone let me know what Penn's Career Services says about this.

 

[Toast18]

I followed Career Services advice and entered everything exactly how it was on my transcript. Some of our classes convert strangely (i.e. organic lab is 4 hours instead of 3), so I would play it safe and let AMCAS worry about it. (I applied this past cycle and had no CU-related AMCAS woes).

 

[nu2004]

yes, you should enter it exactly as it appears on your transcript. if you convert it yourself you might make mistakes and/or cause AMCAS a lot of headache trying to figure out how many course units you actually received, which could result in a delay in processing your primary app.

 

[riceman04]

I'm a post-bac at Penn, and my advisor told me to convert it up front. So, 1 cu is 3 credit hours, and a 0.5 cu lab is 1.5 credit hours.

Weird, I know.. hopefully she knows what she's talking about. Someone let me know what Penn's Career Services says about this.

yeah...Grace obviously should talk to AMCAS people. It should be converted by AMCAS!

 

[Chrissy]

Thank you all.

I am going to put 1.00 for all lecture Penn courses. The Pre-med information packet i downloaded from the career services website specifically says to do this and that the Penn registrar has an explanation already at AMCAS for them to convert. I think the answer here is pretty clear: literally put what is on the transcript. Thanks!

Just for the record and NOT meant to start a discussion, but Grace told me a couple of months ago that STAT (if in the "STAT" dept) was NOT BCPM. Can i get a consensus that she is clearly wrong? I put it in as math.