Pass / Fail and the T6 Forum

[jkhalfa]

How do you guys think the T6 look at pass / fail courses? Should we take as few as possible? Try to limit them to a certain number? Only do it for gen eds or lower level classes?

I think I read somewhere that Harvard looks down upon courses not taken for a letter grade, and some of the other T6 schools might care as well. So far I've only taken one course P/F, but if it's fine to do 2 or 3 I'd like to max that out and save time/stress worrying about my GPA.

[Pneumonia]

GPA is the priority, and most of these schools don't care about P/F anyway. If anyone does it's the adcoms at Yale/Stanford, but even there they'd prefer you have a high GPA rather than no P/F. Don't worry about it.

[Mal Reynolds]

They don't care.

[t-14orbust]

How do you guys think the T6 look at pass / fail courses? Should we take as few as possible? Try to limit them to a certain number? Only do it for gen eds or lower level classes?

I think I read somewhere that Harvard looks down upon courses not taken for a letter grade, and some of the other T6 schools might care as well. So far I've only taken one course P/F, but if it's fine to do 2 or 3 I'd like to max that out and save time/stress worrying about my GPA.

I did two. Got HCCN, though my GPA is >75th everywhere

[manillabay]

How do you guys think the T6 look at pass / fail courses? Should we take as few as possible? Try to limit them to a certain number? Only do it for gen eds or lower level classes?

I think I read somewhere that Harvard looks down upon courses not taken for a letter grade, and some of the other T6 schools might care as well. So far I've only taken one course P/F, but if it's fine to do 2 or 3 I'd like to max that out and save time/stress worrying about my GPA.

I did two. Got HCCN, though my GPA is >75th everywhere

Why is your only statistic in your profile that you're not an unrepresented minority?

[Pneumonia]

3 for me, GPA is 3.5 ish (<25th everywhere); got the same schools.

[t-14orbust]

How do you guys think the T6 look at pass / fail courses? Should we take as few as possible? Try to limit them to a certain number? Only do it for gen eds or lower level classes?

I think I read somewhere that Harvard looks down upon courses not taken for a letter grade, and some of the other T6 schools might care as well. So far I've only taken one course P/F, but if it's fine to do 2 or 3 I'd like to max that out and save time/stress worrying about my GPA.

I did two. Got HCCN, though my GPA is >75th everywhere

Why is your only statistic in your profile that you're not an unrepresented minority?

lol because it's not very identifying except for when I post in the URM thread? I really don't know. If you want details I can PM you