Switching to credit/no credit

[Myotis]

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Do vet schools look down on taking classes credit/no credit? It's not a prerequisite class, or even a science class for that matter. My school requires us to take a ton of GE's, so I'm currently taking a womens studies class that is AWFUL and I've been wanting to switch it to credit/no credit (it's not hard or anything, we just haven't done anything and I don't want to have to scramble for a good grade at the end of the semester like it looks like I'm going to have to do). Will that look bad when I apply to vet schools?

 

[VeganSoprano]

If it's not a prereq or science class and won't drop you below full time status then I doubt it will matter at all. It would certainly be better than getting a grade that would negatively affect your GPA.

 

[cowgirla]

If it's not a prereq or science class and won't drop you below full time status then I doubt it will matter at all. It would certainly be better than getting a grade that would negatively affect your GPA.

Agreed.
So long as it wont affect your graduation...I know my school didn't allow gen ed requirements to be taken pass/fail or anything like that.

 

[Myotis]

That's what i was thinking. I hate it when professors cram everything into the last three weeks of class, and I just have a feeling that that's going to happen with this class (we literally haven't gotten graded on ANYTHING yet and the semester's half way over...)

 

[jenniferblue]

If you do it once, it probably won't be a problem. However, if you take a lot of non-prereq classes credit/no credit the ad coms will not be impressed.

 

[Tiktaalik]

You might want to hold out and see what the prof did for grades last year before changing the credit setup, though. Women's studies classes are notorious for having really offbeat grading systems. If you haven't had a graded assignment yet, you might be lucky enough to end up in a class that grades like my women's studies class did - the prof never graded anything, and at the end of the semester we had to write a 1 page letter grading ourselves and justifying the grade, and we'd get that grade as long as the explanation was deemed "valid" by the prof.

I've had other lit theory classes in which the final grade was determined entirely by how much I participated, or by a single exam that tested my ability to close analyze in remembered context 10 minor images randomly selected from the texts studied over the semester. Obviously some of these options are tougher than others, but it might be worth looking into whether things are going to be nontraditional before you try to switch.

 

[Myotis]

Unfortunately the deadline to switch is tomorrow and it's spring break. I might stick through and risk taking a small hit. We took a "midterm" on Thursday where basically we sat around in groups and wrote 4 things about the two books we've read so far that have encouraged us to tell our story, and then our final will be us telling our story in some sort of creative fashion, so I don't know if she's going to be the kind of prof who grades harshly if she disagrees with your opinion (I've had one of those before), or the kind of prof who gives you an A just for turning something in...

 

[purplesaurus]

Myotis, do you know any students who have taken the class before? You probably have thought of that, but former students could give you a clue about grading.

When you get your exam grade, if it is lower than you would like, I would recommend talking with the prof and seeing what she actually expected. Most profs are very friendly and want you to succeed, so they don't keep secrets about what they are looking for (remember, though, I said "most")!

 

[Tiktaalik]

Unfortunately the deadline to switch is tomorrow and it's spring break. I might stick through and risk taking a small hit. We took a "midterm" on Thursday where basically we sat around in groups and wrote 4 things about the two books we've read so far that have encouraged us to tell our story, and then our final will be us telling our story in some sort of creative fashion, so I don't know if she's going to be the kind of prof who grades harshly if she disagrees with your opinion (I've had one of those before), or the kind of prof who gives you an A just for turning something in...

I don't know your professor, so I can't say it with 100% certainty, but that type of assignment sounds like you can say what you want as long as you make it look like you're taking the class seriously.