Super Quick Question :)

[singergirl18]

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I took a class called Food Cooking and Culture which was actually an expository writing class. All freshman had to take a "First Writing Seminar," and there were a variety of topics to choose from. The group of seminars at my university counts as the English requirement. I wrote 4 long papers and weekly short papers, but it is not coded as English. It is coded as FSSO, so there is no way for a school to know that this is an English class. Can i still classify it as ENGLISH on AMCAS or do I have to mark SPECIAL STUDIES?

(I have 2 AP English too. I am not just trying to call it an English requirement because I am lacking.)

 

[baxt1412]

I would contact AMCAS directly. With it being offered by FSSO, and if it was *primarily english/writing based* (vs being a primarily FS class with a writing aspect) it would appear your school needs to change the classification because it is rather deceiving.

 

[singergirl18]

OK thanks. They classify the entire series that you do during your four years as FSSO. It is VERY deceiving.

 

[baxt1412]

basically, regardless of the course number, I would 1) contact AMCAS if you're worried and 2) classify it as whatever the primary goal/content of the class was.

I have a course titled (on my transcript) Bio IV-Res Des & Ana accompanied with Resrch Desgn&Ana Lab. They are both bio courses and listed as such, but it was by far a statistics-based course, so I listed it as Math on my AMCAS app

 

[basketcase0a0]

I took a class called Food Cooking and Culture which was actually an expository writing class. All freshman had to take a "First Writing Seminar," and there were a variety of topics to choose from. The group of seminars at my university counts as the English requirement. I wrote 4 long papers and weekly short papers, but it is not coded as English. It is coded as FSSO, so there is no way for a school to know that this is an English class. Can i still classify it as ENGLISH on AMCAS or do I have to mark SPECIAL STUDIES?

(I have 2 AP English too. I am not just trying to call it an English requirement because I am lacking.)

I went to the same school as you did/do (I assume, seeing as that course was offered at my Alma Mater under that classification) and classified it, along with my USSY and USNA courses, as English classes due to their writing intensive nature.