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AMCAS requires transcripts from all American institutions, including those overseas. I attended an international campus of an American university in my home country for my freshman year prior to moving to the US (about 10 years ago). I requested an official transcript which has been received by AMCAS but designated as foreign. I contacted AMCAS who responded that not all US universities abroad are going to require an official transcript and that I should enter a transcript exception request. This creates two problems for me:
- There are certain required courses I took during this year such as math and English. Excluding this transcript means I will not fulfill the required courses at some schools, limiting the schools I can apply to.
- My core GPA drops from a 3.4 (3.5 if rounding up counts) to a 3.3 if I exclude these courses (using the AMCAS GPA calculators floating around).