As the title says... does your school use the grades you earn in your 3rd/4th yr clinical rotations to calculate your overall GPA? I'm not sure if it's the standard or not, but ours doesn't... what your GPA is at the end of year 2 is EXACTLY what it will be at the end of year 4 because your clinical grades do not influence your GPA at all. In fact, our school only uses H/P/F for clinicals which makes it better for some, worse for others when trying to justify a "P" versus a HP (which we don't have) to program directors.
I wasn't sure if all schools did the same but was a little bummed to learn that all my great grades in the clinical years won't help make up for my average preclinical years as far as GPA is concerned...
I wasn't sure if all schools did the same but was a little bummed to learn that all my great grades in the clinical years won't help make up for my average preclinical years as far as GPA is concerned...