This^^^^. There is a clearinghouse that AMCAS uses for transcript verification that accurately identifies most, but not all, online classes, whether or not a class is designated as such on your transcript. So, in general, med schools know whether or not a class you have taken was online. In today's environment, however, just about all classes are online, so what's the difference right now? In other words, even classes identified as being in person are online now, so it just doesn't matter until in person classes start up again.While I don’t know the answer to your question, I don’t understand why you’re asking it in the first place. Does it matter if an English class you take is online or not? I think not. Also, we’re in a pandemic so many students have finished many of their classes online and many will take others over the summer and even fall online. I think you’ll be fine with the online class in general whether they know or don’t know that’s it’s online.
That's exactly what I'm asking. Are there differences in "true" online classes and converted online classes.This^^^^. There is a clearinghouse that AMCAS uses for transcript verification that accurately identifies most, but not all, online classes, whether or not a class is designated as such on your transcript. So, in general, med schools know whether or not a class you have taken was online. In today's environment, however, just about all classes are online, so what's the difference right now? In other words, even classes identified as being in person are online now, so it just doesn't matter until in person classes start up again.
Yeah -- I don't see how it can matter whether or not it WOULD have been in person if it isn't!!! Online = online; right now it's okay due to the pandemic. In three months it might not be. If the clearinghouse says your class was in person this summer, does that make it so? Do you think med schools don't know that ALL classes completed from Spring 2020 through at least this summer were online, no matter what the clearinghouse says?That's exactly what I'm asking. Are there differences in "true" online classes and converted online classes.
In the case that my online class isn't accepted as prereq, I can have my professor argue it would have been in person. But if they deemed it unusable because it is online and it actually is online I cannot do anything about it.
Because I suspect there will be a labeling difference?While I don’t know the answer to your question, I don’t understand why you’re asking it in the first place. Does it matter if an English class you take is online or not? I think not. Also, we’re in a pandemic so many students have finished many of their classes online and many will take others over the summer and even fall online. I think you’ll be fine with the online class in general whether they know or don’t know that’s it’s online.
There might be, but it just won't matter. All classes now are online, regardless of how they are labeled, and med schools know this. They are not thrilled, but they have no choice -- their classes are online now as well! Do what you have to do. Until in person classes begin again, you will be fine. You are overthinking this. Believe me, nobody is going to forget the Pandemic of 2020 in the near future. Even five years from now, people will know classes taken in the Summer of 2020 were online, regardless of how they are labeled!!!Because I suspect there will be a labeling difference?
By what you said and looking at things pessimistically, wouldn't all the classes be unusable as they are online? But what happens to those classes that normally would've been accepted that were moved. We could be optimistic and believe all classes are given a free pass in this situation, or be pessimistic and believe none of them will. The middle ground, however, is to give a pass to classes that were originally online. I'm not an adcom, but this judgment makes the most sense to me.Yeah -- I don't see how it can matter whether or not it WOULD have been in person if it isn't!!! Online = online; right now it's okay due to the pandemic. In three months it might not be. If the clearinghouse says your class was in person this summer, does that make it so? Do you think med schools don't know that ALL classes completed from Spring 2020 through at least this summer were online, no matter what the clearinghouse says?
I now understand what you’re saying and I understand you trying to cover your bases. Im still not clear on this but it sounds the English class you’re going to be taking is an online course (pandemic or not).By what you said and looking at things pessimistically, wouldn't all the classes be unusable as they are online? But what happens to those classes that normally would've been accepted that were moved. We could be optimistic and believe all classes are given a free pass in this situation, or be pessimistic and believe none of them will. The middle ground, however, is to give a pass to classes that were originally online. I'm not an adcom, but this judgment makes the most sense to me.
BUT. In this post, I'm trying to figure out if they can even figure which is true and false online. I know the professor of the online class well and I know I'm not getting some washed down version of that class. Med schools adcoms don't and I'm hoping to find a loophole.
Again, you are overthinking it. No classes from this time period will be unusable; they are ALL online. You are the only person who has obsessed on the label Many schools made the announcement when this started -- online is okay now because everything is online. People are taking these classes and are applying this coming cycle. Schools understand no one is taking classes online voluntarily now. Schools are not going to make us retake classes that we took online now when live classes come back, whether or not they are prereqs, and whether or not they are live classes that transitioned to online or they were online from the start. Again, online = online, regardless of what it is labeled.By what you said and looking at things pessimistically, wouldn't all the classes be unusable as they are online? But what happens to those classes that normally would've been accepted that were moved. We could be optimistic and believe all classes are given a free pass in this situation, or be pessimistic and believe none of them will. The middle ground, however, is to give a pass to classes that were originally online. I'm not an adcom, but this judgment makes the most sense to me.
BUT. In this post, I'm trying to figure out if they can even figure which is true and false online. I know the professor of the online class well and I know I'm not getting some washed down version of that class. Med schools adcoms don't and I'm hoping to find a loophole.
