Are there Dental Schools that do not count pluses/minuses in GPA?

[city0flights]

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So I keep hearing this but I'd like to confirm if anyone knows for sure of some schools, if any, that do not look at +/- of our grades? I have many minuses that I'm not very proud of..

 

[AlyssaRof2012]

My grades don't show up as + or -. They just show the letter. I always see people saying they got an A- or something and I'm just like "oh, that's a thing?" I just thought an A was an A....

 

[city0flights]

So you undergrad school didn't use them? Mine did, and it's surprising to hear that other schools do not.

 

[AlyssaRof2012]

Quoted from another thread: "Most schools only view the w/o +\- grades! Why? Well think about it how is it fair that some schools offer A+ but others don't? It's not! So in order to offset this and even the playing field for all schools, they just stop caring about the +\- grades!" - user Periopocket, dental student

Edit: Yeah, my undergrad school doesn't use them. They all show up as plain A or B.

 

[city0flights]

Oh I see. Thanks! So it's true that "most" schools eliminate the +/- in their calculations. Now does anyone know which dental schools do that?

I wish my undergrad didn't use that system.

 

[ChrisM07]

Well think about it how is it fair that some schools offer A+ but others don't? It's not!

Think about how fair it is when you work hard and earn, lets say, an 88-89 percent in a class (normally a B+) and it gets rounded down to a B. It's not.

It works both ways.

My undergrad had the +/- system. My grad school did not so when I did in fact earn those 89.4's in some classes, they turned in to B's.

 

[AlyssaRof2012]

Think about how fair it is when you work hard and earn, lets say, an 88-89 percent in a class (normally a B+) and it gets rounded down to a B. It's not.

It works both ways.

My undergrad had the +/- system. My grad school did not so when I did in fact earn those 89.4's in some classes, they turned in to B's.

I know it does. I definitely see how someone could feel slighted over that (anyone would want to have that + they earned reflected). They should either lose the +/- system all together or put it in all undergrad schools. That way it would be a level field for everyone.

 

[ktran17]

Aadsas calculates both types of grades and schools probably look at both

 

[AlbinoPolarBear]

Aadsas calculates both types of grades and schools probably look at both

Yep. Students who go to schools that have +/- gets their GPA calculated with and without the +/-, so they can be compared to students who went to schools without the +/-.