<p>is there any college other than brown that does pass/fail policy in its grading?</p>
<p>school of the art institute of chicago.</p>
<p>I am not sure how Brown handles pass/fail, but I think that most colleges allow you to take a limited number of classes for pass/fail. At Swarthmore all classes in your first semester are automatically pass/fail to make the transition to college easier.</p>
<p>really? thats pretty sweet...but on the other hand, most classes you take 1st semester are pretty easy, so they boost your GPA without much of an effort</p>
<p>No actually that's not really true. Most people at brown take more challenging courses because they get credit for APs and take placement tests to get advanced standing and get into higher level intro classes or even skip the intro classes altogether. This makes is fairly challenging especially if you make the mistake of taking 5 courses first semester etc and do not consider the difficulty of each of your courses to balance it out. It is really easy to be overwhelmed also because it is college and no one is there to hold your hand and so sometimes freshmen stop studying and then are stuck all semester trying to catch up and cram.</p>
<p>i think you misread my post. I was talking about taking courses for a letter grade, that taking courses for a letter grade isn't that bad, because 1st semester courses are overall pretty easy ( yeah, you can advance place into some, but still chances are you're gonna take a couple of BS courses 1st semester) and you can take advantage of this to boost your GPA.</p>
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I am glad that I do not have to back up that claim. From my limited experience I cannot confirm that intro = easy.</p>
<p>I know Caltech does pass/fail for at least the first two quarters, I think the second one you do get shadow grades, though (you're aware of where in the distribution you're falling, but you still get a P/F on your transcript).</p>
<p>And while I'll say freshman classes aren't necessarily the hardest, depending on the difficulty of the school relative to your high school experience it can be a pretty huge shock. I found college to actually be less work than high school freshman year, so I slacked off and wound up getting a 3.0 my first semester (never was below a 3.5 after that).</p>
<p>New College of Florida is pass/fail your contract, which is negotiated with your advisor. Although there are no letter grades, the profs have very high expectations.</p>
<p>Princeton has a form of pass fail, except it is Pass/D/Fail. It is also limited to 4 classes over your entire time at the university. Most majors don't allow required classes to be taken P/D/F, and many classes that you might otherwise P/D/F have a restriction on it. In totality, it's a nice thing to make a 5th class much less demanding, but it's certainly not as lax or permissive as Brown's system, for example.</p>
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At Swarthmore all classes in your first semester are automatically pass/fail to make the transition to college easier.
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<p>I think it's the same at MIT/Caltech.</p>
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I can, at least from my experience.</p>
<p>It's not that they were easy, but much much easier than their upper level counterparts.</p>
<p>As I said, I only speak from very limited experience but the easiest classes I have taken so far are upper-level math and comp sci classes. On the other hand I have not taken the typical intro classes in those subjects, maybe they would have been even easier.</p>
<p>Wesleyan allows pass/fail in some classes. I think it's up to the teacher: if they decide to allow pass fail, you can take the class as such. I don't think there is a limit on how many pass/fail classes you can take, bu tI may be wrong. We also have a couple of majors that require an entire year (mayne two in one case, I'm not sure) to be taken pass/fail, even for the classes outside the major (and if you're in that major, the teachers of your other classes HAVE to let you take their classes pass/fail).</p>
<p>Stanford for some classes</p>
<p>At Carleton, some freshman seminars are mandatory S/Cr/NC ("scrunch"), with S being awarded to grades of C- and higher, Cr covering the D range, and NC a failing grade. Also, we can elect to pre-scrunch six credits (one class) each term and use that scrunch at the end of the term if we so choose. Doing that too often is highly frowned upon, though, since it's not the best for grad schools.</p>
<p>My understanding is that Brown University permits students to take an unlimited number of courses on a pass/fail basis. I have also read, but have not confirmed, that Brown students can agree with the class instructor in advance, that in the event, for example, that the student will receive a grade of less than an "A", then the student will be graded pass/fail for that course.</p>
<p>I wonder if a college like, say, UCLA, would let me take all of my language classes pass/fail? I hardly think it would make any sense for them to deny me this, right? I'll be a philosophy major hopefully focused on continental philosophy, so I'll want to focus mostly on French and German, and seeing as I'm coming into college with no experience in either, it would make sense (at least to me) to allow me to take these languages pass/no pass, no?</p>
<p>Unless someone's taking a Major like Spanish, or Chinese, I hardly see how getting an A in a foreign language class means anything in terms of academic prowess, and anything less than an A will automatically hurt anyone, so hopefully they'll allow this, right?</p>