AADSAS Quality Points?

[denticus]

So on your AADSAS GPA's, what the heck are quality points, how many do I want (total and per semester) and what is competitive? Or, what are dental schools looking at when they see quality points on my application. I looked for this earlier but couldn't find the answer. Thanks!

 

[Hysteria24]

(Quality Points) / (Hours) = GPA

Quality points are determined by multiplying the grade in the class, on a 4-point scale, by the hours of the course. This creates a weighted value for courses of differing hours/units.

An "A" in a 4 hour class, and a "B" in a 4 hour class will be 28 quality points. Divide the 28 quality points by 8 hours to get a GPA of 3.5 for the two classes.

 

[denticus]

(Quality Points) / (Hours) = GPA

Quality points are determined by multiplying the grade in the class, on a 4-point scale, by the hours of the course. This creates a weighted value for courses of differing hours/units.

An “A” in a 4 hour class, and a “B” in a 4 hour class will be 28 quality points. Divide the 28 quality points by 8 hours to get a GPA of 3.5 for the two classes.

so what's competitive and what are adcoms generally impressed with?

 

[Hysteria24]

Ummm…I thought I made this clear, but I guess not.

Quality points means absolutely nothing. It’s just a number that needs to be calculated in order to calculate your GPA. If you get a grade in a bunch of 4 unit classes, and then some other grades in 3 unit courses, you can’t simply take the average of all the classes because the grades are not all weighted appropriately. A number like this is probably even on your transcript. I have one in the calculation section on all of mine.

Schools will look at your GPA, and then the hours or units that make up that GPA. The best would be a 4.0 (or higher) composed of a good amount of units (like 3-4 years of units).

If you are still intent on finding a good quality point number, I would say the bigger the better (it is after all the numerator in the equation). But understand that this can be done with a modest amount of A’s and B’s (small denominator) or a ton of C’s and D’s (large denominator) which in the end determines your GPA.

 

[denticus]

Ummm…I thought I made this clear, but I guess not.

Quality points means absolutely nothing. It’s just a number that needs to be calculated in order to calculate your GPA. If you get a grade in a bunch of 4 unit classes, and then some other grades in 3 unit courses, you can’t simply take the average of all the classes because the grades are not all weighted appropriately. A number like this is probably even on your transcript. I have one in the calculation section on all of mine.

Schools will look at your GPA, and then the hours or units that make up that GPA. The best would be a 4.0 (or higher) composed of a good amount of units (like 3-4 years of units).

If you are still intent on finding a good quality point number, I would say the bigger the better (it is after all the numerator in the equation). But understand that this can be done with a modest amount of A’s and B’s (small denominator) or a ton of C’s and D’s (large denominator) which in the end determines your GPA.

Thanks, that makes sense.