Premed at Brown means no grades? Is that right???

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:23:25 +0000

@mom2collegekids

Medical schools will not accept P/F grades as fulfilling admission requirements, even though an undergrad may allow students to fulfill graduation requirements by taking P/F classes.

Wasn’t there an issue with JHU not giving grades for frosh?

JHU covers first semester freshman grades and MIT covers, I believe, both semesters of freshman grades. That is, the student’s transcripts shows only Credit/No Credit for all coursework during those semesters. However, students from those school can request that any covered grades be uncovered on their transcripts so that their actual letter grades are displayed for AMCAS and med school adcomms to see.

There are a handful of colleges that don’t use grades (Reed College or New College of Florida, for example), but use narrative evaluations. AMCAS handles narrative grades differently than other types of grading. (See p. 42 of 2019 AMCAS Applicant Guide) AMCAS records the grades as NE with no explanation and does not forward the narrative eval documents to med schools along with the rest of the application. Students attending colleges that offer NEs have to contact each med school individually once their applications have been received and processed to make arrangements to have their narratives sent to the school.