English Composition Requirements

[lioness2408]

So I was looking through the AAVMC Vet School Admission Requirements book, and I noticed that many schools required one or two semesters of "English composition". I go to a small liberal arts school that does not offer classes like English Composition I/English Composition II, and was wondering if I should take a similar course at my local community college to fulfill this prerequisite.

However, my school requires a two semester "First Year Seminar" sequence that is writing intensive, and I received a 5 on my AP English Lit test. Would either of these go towards that requirement? Has anyone else had the same dilemma?

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[WulfpackChica]

I would email the schools that you are looking at and see what they say. It was a requirement at my undergrad to take Eng I & Eng II my first year, which was writing and comprehension.

When all else fails just shoot them an email. Most schools are pretty good about getting back to you. Just give them a coupe of days, because they are probably really busy at the moment 🙂

 

[kakurubird]

Always worth it to email your schools just for peace of mind if you have any concerns.

My undergrad's lower-level intensive writing course was listed on my transcript by only the section's theme title, so I just added a sentence in the explanation statement space that that course went by such-and-such name for the main title and filled our writing requirement.
You can always suggest doing this in addition when you email schools to see how that goes for them.

 

[puppyloomp]

I believe your freshman seminar and your AP credits would probably count, but contact schools to make sure. I know in my case I asked schools and an english class that is writing intensive (it doesn't have to be a series of two classes or to be named english composition) counts for it.

 

[485501]

I would also recommend contacting schools directly to ask about specific classes. I filled my English composition requirement with a course from my school's Rhetoric department, but I verified first with the school I applied to.

 

[Frozenshades]

Definitely contact the schools to be sure. I took both the AP lit and language tests and that met all of my requirements, except TAMU explicitly had a technical writing class required; that was my only English class in undergrad. Writing intensive seminar I had to take for my major didn't count for anything.

 

[StartingoverVet]

fwiw, if you find out you need an eng. comp class (which I would guess you will find you are ok)..... I took an on-line eng comp class at UC Berkeley extension. Pretty painless way to do it.

 

[wildcatj]

Just wanted to add that I fudged things a little with my English comp class requirement. I had taken a writing placement test at my university so I opted out of taking the university required writing course that way. So I contact schools to see if that was an acceptable replacement (it was fine for everyone). One school needed two semesters of English comp, so I used my literature class as the other course. It just had to be writing intensive so 60% or greater of the final grade had to be based on writing. I think that was for Wisconsin.

 

[tuckervet]

I also used literature courses, and I think I had the professor send an e-mail or the sylabus or something to verify that 80% (or something like that) of the grade was determined by writing assignments.

 

[variegata]

If you had a writing sequence, just note that that's what it was, even if it's a course by another name. Mine was a social studies/history type class (Making of the Modern World) that served as my colleges freshman/sophomore writing sequence and none of the schools I applied to had any complaints about it.

 

[pandaclaus]

I only had technical writing in undergrad, and I talked to the schools that required 2 English courses. I was told it was acceptable to take a writing-intensive literature course... which I then took online.

 

[crazycatlady]

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