Average PharmCAS GPA Question

[ein the corgi]

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Hey guys,

So i've been trying to calculate how much my GPA would improve if I re-took equivalent courses at a community college.

Say I took and got these grades:
Bio1-C (2.0)
Bio2-C
Bio3-C
Bio4-C
All at a university utilizing the quarter system.
Assume I average out to a C.

Then I re-took the equivalent courses at a school using the semester system:
BioA- A (4.0)
BioB- A
So I average a 4.0.

Does PharmCAS just average it as "Biology"- (4+2)/2= average score reported is a 3.0 (B)?

Or should I add up all the earned semester hours and divide them by the attempted semester hours (after converting my quarter units to semester) and get a GPA from that? Thanks guys for your help!

 

[syl0sim]

I think since PharmCAS asks for quarter/semester hours you should take those into consideration, although I am not sure how different the numbers will be! 🙂

 

[Guitarmacy]

I'm not very familiar with the quarter system, but if Bio 1-4 is the same as two semesters of Biology then 3.0 average sounds correct. I would e-mail PharmCAS to confirm.

 

[Kwiz]

So you're saying you got a semester in a semester, that's an interesting inception. Not familiar with the quarter system, but pharmCAS requires all courses

 

[deleted481886]

I'm pretty sure regardless you'll need to put every course on pharmcas.

 

[ein the corgi]

hey all, thanks for your responses.

first, i will be submitting all my courses to pharmcas regardless. I just wanted to get a jump-start on seeing if the GPA that i calculate matches with the way pharmcas does it (i have an excel sheet set up).

so basically this is what is going on:
At a quarter school (say UCLA), the courses LS 1, 2, 3, 4 (one quarter each) cover the subjects:
LS 1=Evolution, Ecology, Biodiversity
LS 2=Cells, Tissues, Organs
LS 3=Molecular Biology
LS 4=Genetics

At a semester system the courses Bio101A and Bio101B (one semester each) cover the same introductory biology subjects mentioned above.

So basically my reasoning for these courses at different schools being equivalent to each other is that UoP has articulation agreements with each of these schools and the courses mentioned are stated as being required. Therefore they should be equivalent to each other (unless I'm presuming this all wrong).

Thanks again for any further insight!