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rangoon1984

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This may be a silly question...

But what is included in a cGPA? It it just your undergrad grades, or does it include post bacc premed credits as well? Does your sGPA only count the required prereqs, or does it also count science electives?
 
Everything.

If you took underwater basketweaving 17 years ago to find yourself....it counts.

Same story for sGPA. If it's science, it counts. (Science is a broad category too. Do some looking around the boards, there are lots of posts on this)
 
The rules for categorizing coursework are different for MD, DO and Texas.

The rules for MD are for AMCAS, and can be found here: https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf. Section 4 covers coursework.

For DO look for AACOMAS. For Texas look for TMDSAS.

Example: computer science (as of 2007). AMCAS says it isn't science. AACOMAS says it's math, but math isn't science. TMDSAS says it's math which is science.

Best of luck to you.
 
Thanks guys!

This is also the second time I've seen basket weaving come up on these forums in the past few days. Haha.
 
My law school grades were included in my cGPA, which really screwed me over. I graduated in the top 10% of my law school class, but my school purposefully depressed our grades so I had an 82% average. Three years of an 82 average really diluted my 50 hours of 4.0 post-bacc work. Ultimately, I wrote the schools to which I had applied to clarify the law school grading system, but I believe that that damage had been done and it kept me from getting interviews at some schools.
 
Legally Insane said:
My law school grades were included in my cGPA, which really screwed me over. I graduated in the top 10% of my law school class, but my school purposefully depressed our grades so I had an 82% average. Three years of an 82 average really diluted my 50 hours of 4.0 post-bacc work. Ultimately, I wrote the schools to which I had applied to clarify the law school grading system, but I believe that that damage had been done and it kept me from getting interviews at some schools.
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Hold on just a second.

Your law school grades were counted in your cGPA?!

I was under the impression that all graduate school grades were not calculated as part of your cGPA, only undergraduate level classes (regardless of when you took them).

In other words, I was under the impression that a graduate course cGPA was calculated separately from the undergrad cGPA, and that the grad school cGPA was given far less emphasis by admissions committees than the undergrad cGPA.

Can anyone else speak to this?

Have other people had law school grades included as part of their cGPA???
 
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proclus said:
Hold on just a second.

Your law school grades were counted in your cGPA?!

I was under the impression that all graduate school grades were not calculated as part of your cGPA, only undergraduate level classes (regardless of when you took them).

In other words, I was under the impression that a graduate course cGPA was calculated separately from the undergrad cGPA, and that the grad school cGPA was given far less emphasis by admissions committees than the undergrad cGPA.

Can anyone else speak to this?

Have other people had law school grades included as part of their cGPA???
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Also interested in this. I don't want my crappy 3.50 gpa for my masters in mechanical engineering weighing down the gpa. If I cared about gpa at the time I sure as hell wouldn't have focused on aeroacoustics...
 
Absolutely everything is included in your cGPA, including graduate coursework. They break it down into several categories on your AMCAS application, but the cGPA and scGPA are listed first and are all-inclusive.
 
Not a yes/no question.

App services do GPA calcs. Then app services give all your data and their calcs to your med schools. Med schools can then do whatever calcs they like with the data, and/or do anything they like with the app service calcs.

Note: AMCAS, AACOMAS and TMDSAS all have different categorization rules, and do different breakdowns and calcs.

Best of luck to you.
 
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