Current GPA vs. AADSAS GPA

[DesiDentist]

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Hey everyone,

I heard that you GPA sometimes gets a little boost when AADSAS converts it. I just converted mine and it jumped .05 or half a point. Is this common? I heard for somepeople it decreases. What do schools look at more AADSAS GPA or your real transcript. I know from the real transcript they can't decipher BCP GPA, NON SCI GPA, and SCI GPA but only your overall gpa. SO from my understanding you AADSAS gpa is the gpa they are going to use, right? Please let me know on what happened to your gpa after converting it into AADSAS. Thanks.

DesiDentist

 

[StarGirl]

aadsas concerts your gpa depending on what YOU enter the class as...
i think they look at it all but i am not sure since ALL mine were about the same.

ok i really have to study for my midterm now...no more checking SDN compulsively...must get B to make up for failing last one 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

 

[Kung Foo]

My AADSAS GPA's were higher - because I had taken some community college science classes in high school and those boosted my GPA more than I had anticipated. 😀 At any rate, I think it just depends on whether you are calculating your GPAs the same way AADSAS does.

 

[negar]

Hey guys
How do u know your AADSAS GPA? don't u just enter the grades in the columns?

 

[DesiDentist]

Hey negar,

I painstakingly went through my entire transcripts and calculated it. For example if i Had a 3.7 I used what aadsas used for a A- (3.667) and for a 3.8 ( I used 4.0) etc. Then I converted it. It is much easier to use Excel, but it wasn't working for me at the time. So I used a good 'ol pen and paper. It helped me with my quantitative reasoning...hahaah!! yeah right.

Have fun.

DesiDentist

 

[markymark]

we've got another night owl here...

 

[DesiDentist]

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Yup a night owl. The night is just young. Kaplan class in the morning and a neuro test on monday. What fun fun fun!! MarkyMark you are just a little boy on this forumn. Some of these people live and breath this form. It's amazing and shocking.

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DesiDenstist

 

[markymark]

<img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> are you the one with the spasm hands? <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />

hey good luck on the application process. it will be a stressful time, considering that you will have to deal with apps, dat, and interviews... but in retrospect, i kind of miss it. once you get into dental school, it's a different kind of stress. (i'll let you know if i miss dental school stress when i get out).

 

[Plugger]

Hey there,
Just another goofy canadian here. I just tried calculating my GpA with the AADSAS system and it came out to 4.02- Is this possible. My canadian Gpa is 3.91 because we don't use 4.33 for 90-100, for us its just 4.0. Maybe someone can figure it out for me...I have 102 credit hours total...
Of my six credit hour courses I have..3 A+
(total:54 CrHours(9fullcourses) 3 A
2 A-
1 B
Of my 3 credit hour coures I have(total 48crhrs, or 16 half courses):
8A+
8A
With a A+ as 4.33, A as 4.0, and A- as 3.67, B as 3.0 I calculated a gpa of 4.02, could it be? Thanks Y'all

 

[ItsGavinC]

Plugger,

Nice grades! Your A+ grades should be calculated merely as 4.0, same as the A grade.

- G

 

[Plugger]

Thanks, so my GPA is actually around 3.9 then...cool!

 

[dragonfly9]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Plugger:
•Hey there,
Just another goofy canadian here. I just tried calculating my GpA with the AADSAS system and it came out to 4.02- Is this possible. My canadian Gpa is 3.91 because we don't use 4.33 for 90-100, for us its just 4.0. Maybe someone can figure it out for me...I have 102 credit hours total...
Of my six credit hour courses I have..3 A+
(total:54 CrHours(9fullcourses) 3 A
2 A-
1 B
Of my 3 credit hour coures I have(total 48crhrs, or 16 half courses):
8A+
8A
With a A+ as 4.33, A as 4.0, and A- as 3.67, B as 3.0 I calculated a gpa of 4.02, could it be? Thanks Y'all•••••Yikes! This seems so unfair. . .In no way was a 90-100 an A+ where I went to school. We had:

94-100 A
90-93 A-
87-89 B+
84-86 B
80-83 B- etc.

Not only that, but our chem department aimed to make 75 (C) the class mean in General and organic chem. Bio, class averages hovered between 77 and 81. Their idea was that not everyone could have above average grades by definition and since we were a top 20 liberal arts school we were all bright and being on par with the class average was a good thing.

 

[Plugger]

Wow,
The heads of your school must be on some good crack....Our department heads aim for a class avg of 65-68%(C-C+). Therefore, I usually finish 20% above the class avg. The class avg for first year chem was D+, that is 57-59%, for orgo: C- or approximately 62. If you are in any way implying that it must be easy to get high grades at the University of Toronto....it must be really good crack. How in the world is an 87-89 considered in the B range... thats rediculous. And 75 as a class avg..our professors would lower the grades if that was the case..lol. There's no way a 75 is a C, more like B. You chose the wrong school dude, if all this is true.

 

[dragonfly9]

I'm not implying that U of T is easy. . .I have just been told by Canadian friends that it is so much easier to get a higher GPA at an American school. . . I thought this was a pretty typical grading scheme. If one received straight 82's across the board, they would recieve a B- and a GPA of 2.7. In order to get a 3.9, one would have to get a majority of straight A's (94-100 or 4.0) Even an 90-93 was an A- or 3.7.

I love my school and wouldn't have traded my college experience for the world. . . however, I wish that the powers that be hadn't taken on a crusade to battle grade inflation and bring back the gentleman's grades of yore.

Chances are, if U of T is a bigger university, you have a larger cross section of students. At a school of less than 2000 with tuition over 30K, it was a pretty homogeneous group of highly motivated students. Not to say that we didn't have a slacker here and there. . .