Graduate school applications and pass/fail credits during undergrad?

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NAP, thank you! Any connections I can get could definitely be useful! Sometimes it ends up being about who you know, as sad as that is.

cookderosa, does your school offer microbiology online, and do they allow guest students who are not earning their degree through your school? I am mostly in need of upper level credits at this point, which is the hard part. However, I would still love to take microbiology rather than learning it all on my own for the GRE, and it does not appear that your college requires chemistry in order to take it (just an intro bio course). I can fumble my way through chemistry as needed, but I would prefer not to have to take a course when it is not needed just to fill a prereq.

Regardless of whether I take all coursework or go the GRE route, I want to take the GRE and do well on it so as to present it with my application. A high GRE subject score will certainly not hurt my application.

Goodness, I had no idea. I would have thought with so many people on this forum, surely there would have been some who went on to University of Chicago. If I do get in, I will be sure to stop back to help others out as they have so kindly helped me!

I am thinking my best bet may just be to get most of my bio credits via courses. I CAN do it, but I will have to spread them out along a long string in order to afford them all. I am thinking I will take one more LL course with a lab (probably microbio) and 2 more UL courses with labs. Then only 3 of my LL credits and 4 of my UL credits would be from the GRE. Of course, that is dependent upon what UoC says.

I am hoping that my credits for my gen eds will be fine as pass/fail, since many of them are. I would think that would be far less important. All of my credits from my minour and most/all of my credits for my majour will be from coursework.