Bowdoin is doing mandatory pass/fail too for this semester of remote learning…the administration communicated that Harvard Med School said they would accept pass/fail grades if they were mandatory. Administrators also said that they expect other med schools to follow Harvard’s lead.
But that all seems like speculation to me. How can they represent to students that P/F pre-med pre-reqs would still be allowed in the next 2-6 years or so…when current students apply to med school?
Even if med schools do say they will consider P/F grades, who’s to say that given the choice between two similar candidates, one with grades and one with P/F, the one with P/F grades wouldn’t be disadvantaged?
Thoughts @WayOutWestMom ?
I am concerned about this not only for med school, but law and MBA school and other grad school programs too. Not all schools are doing mandatory P/F. Some schools are giving students a choice between grades and P/F…including some of Bowdoin’s peers. Some schools are still giving only grades.
It seems kind of like the Wild West right now.