pass/fail and psychology graduate schools

lapsychologue
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:18:34 +0000

I am a sophomore Psychology major at a prestigious U.S. college. I plan to go to graduate school for either Social or Clinical Psychology and eventually work as an academic in the field.
In my economics class this semester, I have consistently received Bs on homework assignments, and I don’t have a good feeling about our most recent midterm. It almost seems that there isn’t a correlation between how much I study for my grades thus far in this class.
My guess is that I’ll end up receiving a B in the class. However, my GPA right now is a 4.0, and I’d like to keep it that way for graduate school admissions.

Should I take the class Pass/Fail and focus on my other courses and research? Does this look bad during the grad school admissions process?

Thanks!