english requirement

[kcin]

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Hey. I was looking at the DSAR book and was a little concerned about the english requirements listed for some schools. The courses I have taken for english are college writing ("eng" prefix) and a technical writing course (listed as "WR227" in the catalog). The college writing course was 3 semester hours and the technical writing course was 4 quarter hours. I looked around in the DSAR book but I couldn't find out if the requirements listed were in semester hours or quarter hours, but I have a feeling it is semester hours.

My questions...

Would a writing course with "writing" as the course subject instead of "english" normally count towards the english req? If so, would they round up the credit hours to 6 (it's 5.66666666etc when converting to semester hours)?

How strict are the schools with these requirements? Would they dismiss my application out of hand after collecting the secondary app fee? Or would they give me a chance to explain/take a quick summer/spring course if necessary?

Thanks for any insight

 

[metalmethod741]

Hey. I was looking at the DSAR book and was a little concerned about the english requirements listed for some schools. The courses I have taken for english are college writing ("eng" prefix) and a technical writing course (listed as "WR227" in the catalog). The college writing course was 3 semester hours and the technical writing course was 4 quarter hours. I looked around in the DSAR book but I couldn't find out if the requirements listed were in semester hours or quarter hours, but I have a feeling it is semester hours.

My questions...

Would a writing course with "writing" as the course subject instead of "english" normally count towards the english req? If so, would they round up the credit hours to 6 (it's 5.66666666etc when converting to semester hours)?

How strict are the schools with these requirements? Would they dismiss my application out of hand after collecting the secondary app fee? Or would they give me a chance to explain/take a quick summer/spring course if necessary?

Thanks for any insight

Don't know about rounding up, but I do know that writing classes can count as writing classes. As thats how it works at Cornell. You should still probably call some schools to double check and make sure that you are doing everything right though.