different institutions and credits

[same21]

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If I took courses at two different institutions, one of which gave 3 credits to all courses, the other which gave four, how would medical schools determine the average? By credits or by courses?

 

[phltz]

If I took courses at two different institutions, one of which gave 3 credits to all courses, the other which gave four, how would medical schools determine the average? By credits or by courses?

AMCAS does averages by credits. But first, they scale credits to some "standardized" credit. I had classes from a bunch of schools, including ones where a standard course was 1, 3, 4, or 12 credits. After their scaling, these were mostly 3 or 4 credits.

Most likely, your 3 credit classes will stay 3 credits and your 4 credit classes will stay 4. So you should probably just calculate your average by credits.

 

[raltima07]

AMCAS does averages by credits. But first, they scale credits to some "standardized" credit. I had classes from a bunch of schools, including ones where a standard course was 1, 3, 4, or 12 credits. After their scaling, these were mostly 3 or 4 credits.

Most likely, your 3 credit classes will stay 3 credits and your 4 credit classes will stay 4. So you should probably just calculate your average by credits.

12 credits? tis crazy!

 

[phltz]

12 credits? tis crazy!

It's up to each school to decide what a "credit" means to them. At some schools, a class is a credit. At some schools, the number of credits represents the number of hours spend in the classroom each week. At my undergrad institution, the number of credits represented the total number of weekly hours a class was expected to take, including class time, recitation, reading, homework, etc.

It's a different scale. Like centimeters and inches, measuring with one gives a higher numerical value, but the meaning is the same.