Urgent AACOMAS questions!!!

[francheezy]

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A few urgent questions regarding the AACOMAS application:

1) I took classes senior year of high school at my local community college. I didn't do so well on them because it was very lax that time of year for me. However, since I took additional courses (physics, calculus) at the same comm college, the dreaded earlier classes obviously show up on my transcript as well. Since there is no academic status lower than freshman available(which is defined by AACOMAS as 0-32 credit hours), would I mention myself as freshman for those classes even though I was in high school? Or would I not mention those courses at all.

2) Under the Course column when entering grades, do you enter the whole course name or just the abbreviated form? For example, if Calculus I is the course name and MATH251 is the course abbreviation, would I put "Calculus I" under the course column or just "MATH"?

3)I recently graduated from my undergrad university and am retaking certain classes I got C's in. Would I be designated as "Graduate" or "Post-Baccalaureate" Academic Status?

4)Also, does anyone know if Cultural Anthropology would be considered as part of the AACOMAS science or non-science GPA? According to the list of courses considered as "Non-science" provided by AACOMAS, a course like Cultural Geography is mentioned. However, under the courses listed as "Other Science" (which counts as science gpa), Physical Anthropology is mentioned. Even though cultural anthropology isn't listed on either list, my guess is it would be considered as "non-science". What do you guys think?

Any answers and information would be helpful. Thanks guys!

 

[ShyRem]

I'll take a stab at this one:

1. ALL college courses MUST be listed. I'd list them as "freshman".

2. it's been a while since I did my aacomas. But under description, i would enter the course name, not the abbreviation. There used to be a place for the abbreviation or course number too, did they take that out?

3. If you're taking undergrad classes but already have a degree, that's a post-bac. Graduate is for graduate level courses.

4. I would think cultural anthropology would be non-science since it's dealing with the non-science aspect of anthropology. Physical anthropology is dealing with the science aspect.

There's a great (but really long) thread in pre-osteo dealing with nothing but application questions. It probably has a lot of your questions already discussed. 🙂

Good luck

 

[saylorsdad]

last year i took ug courses and aacomas listed them as graduate when i emailed to verify they said i was graduate student since i have masters degree if you have only bachelors i assume they would be post bac.

also freshman is your first 30 hours i thonk so it doesnt matter if you are in 8th grade when you take the classes your status is based upon college hours only after all high school doesnt count for squat anymore.