Does anyone on here know the significance of an S/U or pass fail grade for an organic chemistry lab if your university made everyone's grade pass/fail? I'm doing the AMCAS application right now.
S/U mandatory for organic chemistry lab
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That is bizarre. It was seriously Pass/Fail? Or like was it factored into your lecture grade and they just have it as its own P/F entry on the transcript?
I think it was factored into the lecture grade and they just have the lab as pass/fail on the transcript. That makes for an interesting scenario when filling out the AMCAS application. Do I check the lecture and lab included box for the lecture even though lab is showing up separately on the transcript, albeit pass/fail?
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Is it shown as a 0-credit entry? Regardless, the best thing to do is just copy down EXACTLY what is shown on your transcript, because AMCAS would just change it to that anyways. If a school tells you it is a problem to have taken the lab P/F, then you'd explain to them that the lab grade was factored into the overall lecture grade, and the transcript lab entry was not actually a separate course.
Would a school really tell me if that was a problem or just reject my application without telling me? I'm concerned about the later. The best remedy that I'm aware of would be explaining that in secondaries if given the chance.
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They won't reject you over it, worst case you'd be told you have to go take a summer ochem lab somewhere for a grade right before you matriculate. But really I don't think they're going to have a problem as long as you explain this is the normal course series for your school, you do get your lab reports and whatnot graded but then it's factored into the lecture grade on the transcript.
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