Do labs (such as organic chem/biology labs) count in Science GPA?

[calidermatologist2023]

This may seem like an obvious question but if my school offers labs (with credits and students receive a grade at the end of the course), do these labs such as biology, genetics and organic chemistry labs count into our cumulative science GPA? And what about the physics labs?

Thanks!!

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[pathhermit]

Yes, all science labs count.

 

[efle]

If your labs go on your transcript as their own entry with credits and a grade, then yes.

Many schools have a lab grade that makes up part of your overall grade in the class (so you might get an A in the lab portion and a B+ in the class overall).

In that case, it is only the overall that gets counted.

 

[calidermatologist2023]

Other than @elfe concern for the lecture/lab confusion, what prompted you to ask this question?

Thank you guys for your input! I realized that my original question didn't really outline exactly what I was wondering- our school puts lab lecture as the name of the course (even though it was a lab as well as a lab lecture) and I was wondering if this would be misleading for the AMCAS on deciding if counted for the sGPA. Otherwise, I just wanted to understand if labs (outside of lectures) are also counted in our overall sGPA!

 

[pseud0]

it depends what your transcript says.

where i took my pre-reqs, the labs were 0.00 credit classes and simply counted as a percentage of your total grade for the class. Some schools probably apply credits to each...in which case they count towards the gpa.