I just had a student ask me a question I can't answer:
She is doing poorly in a class (biopsych) but is passing with a C-.
She is interested in going to grad school in psych. She is thinking
of taking this course pass/fail.
Her question: does a pass for this course on her transcript look
Chuck:
If I saw that a student had taken a core class like biopsych on
a P/F system then I would be tempted to assume either she
had begun the class P/F, and probably had not worked hard on
learning material from the beginning, or that she had done very
poorly (low D range) was attempting
