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Do pod schools add both grades in when calculating your gpa? I failed orgo but then retook it so would they just count the 2nd grade?

You keep asking questions that are easily accessible on the application FAQ.

They count both grades.

Do they take the average of the 2 grades or just simply add both to the final grade? And if you have say a 3.3 in a chem class, how is that weighted? I read what it said on the website but I still wasn't too sure. Also, does it favor us when the aacpmas changes our grades to theirs?

Originally Posted by calibaby1212

Do they take the average of the 2 grades or just simply add both to the final grade? And if you have say a 3.3 in a chem class, how is that weighted? I read what it said on the website but I still wasn't too sure. Also, does it favor us when the aacpmas changes our grades to theirs?

There should be information about this in your application process. I don't have access to the site, but search around; it's there.

Taking the average of the two grades is the same as adding both to the final.

Originally Posted by calibaby1212

Do pod schools add both grades in when calculating your gpa? I failed orgo but then retook it so would they just count the 2nd grade?

To answer your question aacpmas averages the 2 grades.

When they change some of the grades to theirs, like I seen that a 2.7 is a B- to them, does that benefit us or hurt us?

What do you mean? I was under the impression that 2.7 = B- everywhere.

Originally Posted by EK18

What do you mean? I was under the impression that 2.7 = B- everywhere.

It might be 2.66 some places? I don't think that's what the OP meant though, of which I am clueless.

Like for instance my genetics class, I had a 76 or 77 overall and that was a 2.7 in the class.

the grading is off for your institution then because a 76 or a 77 is a C+ which is 2.30. If it shows up on your transcript as a b- then they will credit you with a 2.7. If you have a c+ then it will be credited at 2.3.

In the class I received a 76 percent or something like that but on my transcript it says 2.7, would they make the grade higher I don't understand, how would they favor that in the final gpa

They would probably count it as a 2.7. Why would they make the grade higher?

Edit: Does your school not give out letter grades but instead just assigns a GPA value for each class?

This is precisely why I can't stand GPA being used so heavily.

At my undergrad, a 69.5-79.4 is a C. No minuses, no pluses.

Yea my school doesn't give out letter grades, just gpas.

That's strange