<p>But most kids will choose to take classes for grades - for grad school admissions and employers. Pass/fail option is nice for exploratory classes. Everyone makes a big deal of this option as if all students just go to these schools to play and just get by taking pass/fail. In reality, the type of student who might want to do this probably wouldn’t have been accepted in the first place. That’s not the type of student these schools are looking for.</p>