The Evergreen State College & the AMCAS Coursework Section

[Ellie Arroway]

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Does anyone have experience with inputting an Evergreen State College transcript into the coursework section? For two years, I had two programs. Each was 3 terms, 16 credits per term, each including a combination of fine & applied arts, history, social sciences, and writing. Do I just put two courses in the coursework section and pick a course classification at random? Or do I input the "suggested course equivalencies" on the transcript cover page, even though I didn't actually take classes that were called those things? And what about course numbers? Nothing at Evergreen has a course number.

For those who have no idea what I am talking about, my transcripts from Evergreen (the last 2 years of my BA, but thankfully not my prereq classes) consist of 10 pages of narrative evals, no grades, and a cover sheet that makes an attempt at translating it for the rest of the world. I know greeners get into med school sometimes, and the AMCAS manual mentions how to deal with the grade situation, but I can't get any info on the coursework section from my advisor at my current institution or from Evergreen.

Thanks!

 

[Ellie Arroway]

As an update, when AMCAS verified my app, they changed all of my Evergreen coursework to Pass/Fail.

 

[SpacemanSpifff]

Does anyone have experience with inputting an Evergreen State College transcript into the coursework section? For two years, I had two programs. Each was 3 terms, 16 credits per term, each including a combination of fine & applied arts, history, social sciences, and writing. Do I just put two courses in the coursework section and pick a course classification at random? Or do I input the "suggested course equivalencies" on the transcript cover page, even though I didn't actually take classes that were called those things? And what about course numbers? Nothing at Evergreen has a course number.

For those who have no idea what I am talking about, my transcripts from Evergreen (the last 2 years of my BA, but thankfully not my prereq classes) consist of 10 pages of narrative evals, no grades, and a cover sheet that makes an attempt at translating it for the rest of the world. I know greeners get into med school sometimes, and the AMCAS manual mentions how to deal with the grade situation, but I can't get any info on the coursework section from my advisor at my current institution or from Evergreen.

Thanks!

Evergreen is without a doubt the most unusual institution I have ever heard of (that is in no way an insult). One of my friends is currently enrolled playing soccer there, and he seems to be loving it. It's strange you could not get some help from your advisor, you would think they should at least be somewhat familiar with the application process. Glad it all worked out, and good luck!

 

[Ellie Arroway]

I really enjoyed my time at Evergreen, but I was kind of a mess because of some life circumstances and I really think I could make so much more out of the experience now. Glad I didn't take my med prereqs there, though, that would be a huge AMCAS hassle.

For any Greeners that do a search & find this thread later, in AMCAS I entered all of the "courses" on the Suggested Course Equivalencies page (instead of just entering two program names for two years). I had gathered that I should just leave the grades blank instead of designating it pass/fail, but AMCAS switched it all to pass/fail.

 

[BABSstudent]

Does anyone have experience with inputting an Evergreen State College...

had to stop there. haha

Sorry, Washington resident and I can't really take that school seriously sometimes. One of my friends got a nutrition class credit for going on a diet and then got a history credit for going to state parks and writing an essay about them.

 

[Ellie Arroway]

had to stop there. haha

Sorry, Washington resident and I can't really take that school seriously sometimes. One of my friends got a nutrition class credit for going on a diet and then got a history credit for going to state parks and writing an essay about them.

Because assigning yourself an essay while being advised by a history professor is way different that when a history teacher assigns you to write an essay.

But true, I always joke that you can get a BA by meditating for 4 years. It's what you make of it.

 

[BABSstudent]

Because assigning yourself an essay while being advised by a history professor is way different that when a history teacher assigns you to write an essay.

But true, I always joke that you can get a BA by meditating for 4 years. It's what you make of it.

I totally get you, but I think it is strange that he got credit to go hike in the woods and smoke weed and then BS an essay. However, students in university do the same thing without the adventure.

 

[Ellie Arroway]

Oh, ok. When I heard "going to parks and writing an essay" I pictured something with more of a rigorous community development or forestry or environmental science bent than smoking weed in the woods.

 

[Ellie Arroway]

How the Evergreen founders thought it would go:

Greeners and UW SoM publish rigorous joint study on the uses of magic mushrooms in treating PTSD. Research was conducted utilizing community-based popular research methods that resulted in wider and deeper sampling of underserved communities than have ever been achieved.

How it actually goes:

Student does a bunch of shrooms and writes a rambling journal about fractals & chaos theory that demonstrates a total lack of understanding of either one.


Obviously scenarios resembling each of these play out, but I don't know what the distribution looks like.

 

[JOConnor]

My ex wife got a BA in Herbal Medicine there, her senior thesis was on sacred geometry in plants. Also had a friend that somehow finagled a sky diving trip....something about studying the curvature of the earth or some other wonky business.

 

[Ellie Arroway]

Hah, well I suppose I'm glad I have two years of postbacc science coursework at an institution with grades to buffer any interesting sentiments that adcoms may have about my alma mater.