Striving for innovation: physics, engineering, and medicine

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:51:23 +0000

Courses in depts like Philosophy are writing-intensive if they have a series of short papers and a final long paper, is that correct? Would that count?



Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on your school’s policies.

Most schools have a list of courses that are considered “writing intensive” and will fulfill your school upper level writing requirement. The list of acceptable courses should be available at the school’s writing center.

Other schools offer an add-on writing portion to certain upper level classes to fulfill writing requirements. (And the class needn’t necessarily be a traditional term paper-based class. D2 fulfilled her writing requirement through an add-on to one of her senior math classes.)

At still other schools, a senior honors thesis will fulfill the second writing requirement.

The most important thing is to check the policies at your school since it’s your school which must certified (via your transcript) that you’ve met their requirements for 2 semesters of writing credits.

RE: AP credit. While AP scores may give you credit for the lecture portion of a science class, it usually will not give you lab credits. You will still need to have lab credits for 4 semesters of chem and two semesters of bio to eligible for medical school admission.