Hi guys,
For the UC systems, the lab is offered as a 4 unit course (equivalent to 1 of the lecture courses that have 3 parts).
So we spend like 10 hours a week in lab, and maybe 1-2 in lecture. Would I list this as "Lab Only" or "Combined Lecture and Lab?"
I feel like combined lecture and lab refers to those schools that have 1 unit labs attached to 3 unit lectures, which is not the case. Should I choose "lab only" and ignore the fact that there was a little lecture to emphasize it's a lab class?
If you receive a separate grade for your lab class and your lecture class, it's not combined. If you have a lecture for your lab class, that doesn't make it a combined class... it makes it a lab class with additional instruction.
I was wondering in the past...... people who submitted in June... when were you verified??
In 2007, I submitted June 21. I was verified on June 23, I think. In 2009, I submitted like June 2, and was verified 2-3 days later (I had a fairly complicated application).
What happens when your volume of AP Credits granted to you by your home university exceeds "freshman status"? AMCAS told me today that I have no "freshman GPA" if I don't list any of my actual university course work as a freshman (despite that I have more than X amount of credit hours than the freshman maximum and am techincally a sophomore).
Include your AP credits in your freshman status. Include your first year of classes as well. It doesn't matter how many credits you have... go by the year in school. Technically, I started as a second semester sophomore... I was still slotted as a freshman for at least that first semester. I can't remember exactly how they broke it down after that.
Is it recommended to use AMCAS letter serivice or Interfolio? Which is easier to set up for me and the letter writer?
I would like more information on how to use the letter service in AMCAS. If you have LORs submitted electronically, how are they signed, scanned to PDF?
I also don't have any addresses. Should I request the work or personal?
You have to send your letters to the AMCAS letter service. The reason people use Interfolio is two-fold. 1) if you, unfortunately, have to reapply, you still have access to your past LORs, so you don't have to hunt down professors to get them to write new letters (you should, but if you can't get in contact with one, you can still use the old letter). 2) you can start collecting your LORs before AMCAS opens.
I have a question about transcript credits.
I just received my transcript from Duke, which I ordered for myself since you are supposed to copy the grades/credits from the transcript they originally came from.
On my Duke transcript it says every course I took counted for 1 credit. Japanese, Chem, engineering, all the same.
However, when it transferred to my state school later, that transcript says 4 credits for each course.
Do I really just put 1 credit in for my Duke classes? Wouldn't that really skew my gpa since all the other classes I took at the other university counted as 3 and 4 credits?
I'm really confused, and suddenly have no idea how to compute my GPA. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, because a couple of my Duke classes being counted as 1 credit instead of 4 would make me really happy 😉
Any ideas?
How many credits at Duke was considered full time? 3? 4? Divide 12 by that number (that's how many credit hours is equal to full time status, according to the financial aid office). Multiply your Duke credits by that number to get credit hours.
I came into college with a lot of AP credits and such, graduating after 3 years. In other threads, I keep hearing about AMCAS re-organizing your class standing (freshmen/sophomore), so I'm worried about my upward trend showing up weird. So..
1. Will they still get to see the breakdown of GPA's quarter by quarter?
2. How many credits until one is considered "Senior?"
I ask because this could make the difference between submitting now or waiting until after spring quarter. I have had a few quarters of 4.0's, so I really want them to see the grades broken down in academic years, not by units, which could make the upward trend weird. Does anyone know how they do it?
They sort it by academic year. All your freshman courses are lumped together, sophomore courses are lumped together, junior, senior, post-bacc, etc. But, they also get a break down of all your courses and the grade you got in them. They may not see the trend in numbers, but they'll still be able to see it in the courses themselves.
Hey everyone! I had a question about AP and IB credits. I took both the AP and IB exams for Biology, and passed both to receive college credit for Bio 1, do I have to put down both exams? A lot of my exams overlapped. A lot of my IB credits were also in English and History (not related to my major) so should I include those too? The reason I'm asking is because I came into college with a TON of credits and it would be so tedious to mention them all 🙁 thank youuu!
You don't put down the exams at all...you put down the credit that you got for the exams in college. So, if getting a 7 on the IB exam got you credit for bio 1 and 2, then you put down bio 1 and 2 on the application, then check 'IB' at the bottom.
You have to put everything that's on your transcript, so if you got credit for your history and English AP/IB courses, then yes, you have to put them down as well. This is why this whole process is so tedious.
Also, I took a college algebra class in 2002 (middle school) that's on my transcript. Does that have to be entered too? If so, do I enter it as a freshman year grade or can I put 2002? I wasn't sure about the latter because on AMCAS I wrote that I began college in 2007 and it might come off as confusing.
I believe you put it as 'high school' and put the year you took it. You have to send a transcript from the school you took the course at, though.
