How does the Admissions Committee deal with courses that are graded on a credit/no credit (CR/NCR) basis?
UW’s School of Pharmacy has a comprehensive admissions process designed to attract the most qualified and promising candidates to the School. In order to assess each applicant on a level playing field, it is important for the Admissions Committee to receive comparable information from each applicant. In regard to post-secondary transcripts, the Committee prefers that each course be assessed on a letter or numeric grading scheme, such that the student’s grade point average (GPA) can be calculated.Where courses are ONLY offered on a Credit/No Credit (CR/NCR) basis, the course will be excluded from the applicant’s GPA.In cases where the student has ELECTED to choose a CR/NCR course assessment, for any course that is submitted in fulfillment of the School’s specific academic requirements, the Admissions Committee will interpret the CR as the lowest percentage grade that resulted in the awarding of the CR status. For example, if the CR was assessed based on achieving “a final mark of at lea
