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Do DO medical schools have a different system of calculating your science gpa ? Iveheard they don't include your maths in your science gpa. Is this true?
 
Hi, yes it's true. AACOMAS counts different subjects towards your science GPA. You can look it up in the instruction booklet for the AACOMAS.
 
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Does anyone know if these classes are considered science by AACOMAS?
ETCS engineering technology and computer science
MET mechanical engineering technology
IET industrial engineering technology
ECET
ET engineering technology
note that these classes are technology
Thanks for the input.
 
Does anyone know if these classes are considered science by AACOMAS?
ETCS engineering technology and computer science
MET mechanical engineering technology
IET industrial engineering technology
ECET
ET engineering technology
note that these classes are technology
Thanks for the input.
All Engineering is considered "other science" for purposes of AACOMAS.
 
Ok so we have established that engineering technology classes are different than engineering classes. The question however is if engineering technology classes will be counted toward my science gpa.
HELP PLEASE
 
Ok so we have established that engineering technology classes are different than engineering classes. The question however is if engineering technology classes will be counted toward my science gpa.
HELP PLEASE

You could probably argue that they are engineering classes, just a subdivision of Engineering.


No one really knows besides the AACOMAS, but my guess is that they will see Engineering in the title, and put it into the Engineering category whether or not you actually did any "engineering."

For a while, I was following the Biomedical Engineering major coursework, and took classes called like BME 1, BME 50 which is straight up Cell and Molecular Engineering (Biology basically) with very little "engineering" and they still counted as Engineering. AZCOM accepted me, but credited these BME classes towards my Biology Pre-Requisite requirement.