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Good idea; I'll check with them.
Interesting. Perhaps the handout they gave me during admitted students weekend (CPW) was for last year's application cycle. The policies may have changed by now.
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From their packet:
"Q: I took an ASE for one of more of the prerequisite courses. How will the medical schools view these grades?
A: ASE grades do appear on your official transcript, so you will enter them into the AMCAS application just like any other course (noting CLEP as the special course type), and they will be viewed just like your other course work. While ASE grades do not factor into the MIT GPA, ASE grades will factor into the AMCAS GPA"
MIT ASEs can be taken by non-freshmen (only MIT freshmen are allowed to take ASEs for Pass/Fail). Perhaps this is where the discrepancy is.
Congrats on MIT. Truly such a great school. MIT is the frontrunner of innovation in this country. Anyway, I would take advantage of the P/F rule your first semester. Take some interesting courses like MV Calc, Programming, etc. At MIT, you will not find myriad pre meds; lots of people are into engineering and compsci.Hi all! I'm a prefrosh headed off to MIT this Fall, and I have a few quick questions (especially for MIT premeds out there).
I'm a bit conflicted on whether or not to take MIT's placement exams, also known as the ASEs. I know the material in Intro. to Biology (7.01x), Principles of Chem. (5.11x), MV Calculus (18.02), Intro. to Programming (6.0001), and Organic Chemistry I (5.12) well because I've either taken the equivalent in high school and/or have been studying the material over the summer. If I take the ASEs and "pass" them (C equivalent or above), I get a P in my official transcript, i.e. no letter grade. However, I just realized that the "hidden" letter grade does factor into the AMCAS GPA. In other words, if I end up getting Cs in all of these ASEs, I'll get to take more advanced classes (which I really, really would love to) but will have 2.0s calculated into my AMCAS GPA...
Now, I absolutely love learning, and I want to jump into where I'd fit best academically. But wouldn't this be detrimental to my applications? Given that I do well in my classes throughout my 4 years of undergrad., would medical schools understand that these are placement exam grades rather than "actual" grades?
Thanks for helping!!!