Is "Transcript Padding" akin to Application Padding with EC's?

michaelwiggins
Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:39:54 +0000

Why would I take a full class to make it look good? I don’t know, and I didn’t. The day I was signing up for classes I realized I satisfied all of the high school credits I needed (except for BCIS) because I took 8 classes both freshman and sophomore year. I had nothing else to fill the spaces except college classes, so I signed up for those two that were required. I had 2 spaces left and didn’t want to waste them in study hall, so I set one up as a Teacher’s assistant, and the other as philosophy 1301.

The reason I’m asking this is because I was looking at my schedule and seeing “1301” next to all of the courses kind of put into perspective the fact that they were all introductory courses… Then I thought about how the college offered 2 more levels of sociology and philosophy, and I wondered if not taking those would be akin to taking like calculus one and then stopping. Or like taking Honors biology freshman year, doing well in it, and never deciding to progress to an AP form of it or another AP Science…