Credit/ No Credit

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<p>I am not clear about Wellesley rules for taking courses credit/no credit instead of for a letter grade.</p>

<p>If you want to be eligible for Latin honors (cum laude), then 'no more than one quarter of the courses after first year may be taken credit/ no credit'.</p>

<p>But does this include courses that are mandatory C/NC such as many creative writing courses?</p>

<p>Also what about junior year abroad? Are credits earned abroad typically given a grade, is that counted in the GPA, and does that count to Latin honors? Seems like there must be places abroad where you can be sure of getting an A for everything.</p>

<p>Obviously a main use of C/NC must be to get distribution requirements out of the way without harming your GPA (such as by doing not well in science or math courses).</p>

<p>And, what about the math requirement? What sort of content is in MATH101? Is there a textbook for it?</p>

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<p>Yes. All courses you take C/NC count towards this “one quarter of the courses you take after first year” requirement, including those that are mandatory C/NC. </p>

<p>Honestly I would not worry about this. As it’s discouraged from taking courses in your major C/NC, it really shouldn’t be a problem.</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, junior year courses are not counted towards your GPA – they are viewed as transfer credits, so you get credits towards the 32 units you need to graduate but they do not affect your GPA. And thus, not counted towards Latin Honors. </p>

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<p>You can take your math requirement C/NC if you wish – remember, a math course is not the only way to satisfy this requirement, you could also take astronomy or computer science. </p>

<p>MATH 101 is learning how to data analysis among other things. I never took it but friends said that it was a mix of statistics and chart analysis etc. The textbook they use is a statistics textbook…I have forgotten the specifics about it.</p>

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<p>Or humanities courses. ::ahem::. If you study abroad, it doesn’t exist as far as Latin Honors are concerned.</p>

<p>Look don’t worry about Credit/non and Latin Honors. If I had taken one more class credit/non than I had, then I would have gotten Latin Honors. </p>

<p>However, nobody (but me) cares or notices that I did not get Latin Honors. In fact, I can’t even find a way to look up whether a friend of mine who graduated got it.</p>