<p>I looked around but couldn’t quite find an answer: are engineers allowed to take any of their courses pass/fail to make them count towards fulfilling their liberal arts requirement? I have a class in mind I’m interested in, but am afraid it will interfere with my core classes during exam periods and such. I would rather explore something new without the pressure of maintaining good grades.</p>
<p>Yes you can take them pass fail as long as the course itself has a pass fail grade option. Not all courses have pass fail as an option though.</p>
<p>Thanks Prism, that is good to know! (BTW, would you be able to point a written source? I couldn’t even find the information in the student handbook, or maybe I wasn’t looking carefully enough.) </p>
<p>I have been taking my courses for letter grades so far, and will probably continue to do so for most of my classes. I hear taking too many S/U credits is a red flag for graduate schools.</p>
<p>S/U <em>can</em> be a red flag, but only under certain conditions:
- In core courses whose grades are used to signal aptitude (eg, in organic chem if you’re applying to med schools)
- Undergraduate-level electives in your major, or in the same area as the graduate program to which you’re applying
- A very large number of S/U courses when you only met minimum graduation requirements, or when your semester course-load was very light anyway</p>
<p>A couple of S/U courses in fields that are completely unrelated to either your major or the graduate program to which you’re applying shouldn’t matter at all! Graduate admissions committees want evidence that you’ll succeed in your field, and I doubt they care at all about whether you took humanities courses for fun, whether a mediocre grade, an S/U grade, or a good one.</p>