Canadian UG, American school?

[steak79]

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Hey All,

Just a quick question - I'd like to get some suggestions.

I just got my April MCAT scores back. 12V, 10B, 10P, (32M - yes M 😕 ). I'm gonna get that M reviewed and hopefully raised a bit.

Education:
1) bachelor of math/computer science (GPA too low to post) (University of Waterloo)
2) master of business admin (GPA ~3.65) (Wilfrid Laurier U)
3) bachelor of science (cGPA - 3.55, best 30 hours from each year cGPA - 3.65)

Unfortunately, individual aspects of my profile will keep me out of contention for just about every Canadain med school (mostly that M writing sample).

Anyone have any suggestions for (ideally) Canadian applicant-friendly American schools whose admission statistics are on par with my profile?

Thanks,

Steak

 

[Loula]

Just wondering about that Bachelor of Math GPA, isn't the GPA cumulative and that math GPA will count?

 

[steak79]

Hey Loula,

Sorry - should have clarified. If all the courses/marks are included from the 1st UG degree, then my cGPA (excluding the MBA) is about 3.0.

The numbers I'd mentioned previously were just for the second (BSc) degree.

I'm not familiar with any of the admissions details for American schools - Canadian schools are all different - some count all courses ever taken, some count all UG courses, some only the most recent degree, and some the most recent two years worth of courses. I assumed (and hope) that there are some American schools that will disregard the first UG degree.

Steak

 

[Loula]

Hey Steak,

I think we're both in the same boat. I also went to a Canadian undergrad. I don't know how AMCAS converts university of Toronto weights (0.34. 0.5, 1.0) to calculate the GPA. I also don't know which scale they use. In the AMCAS table they have three scales for Canadian Schools. Any idea?

So what i did to calculate the GPA:
Sum of( 0.34*(6 semester hrs)*GPA from Table+ other courses, etc...)/total Semester hrs.

any suggestions?