Do university classes you took BEFORE the start of undergraduate count?

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Before I started college. I took some classes the summer after my junior year of high school at UCLA extension. I stopped going to class and I failed it. I also took 3 community college classes my senior year which I got As in. Do these count in my med school GPA?
 
I think OP means do they count toward his/her GPA when applying to med school, not the med school GPA itself.

Yes, they do count. Any undergraduate class, regardless of whether YOU were an undergrad when you took it, must be reported to AMCAS and be accompanied by a transcript.
 
but thats so gay

Interviewer: I see on your file here that you failed a class, care to explain that?
plsfoldthx: That was SO gay bro!!
 
As everyone else has said, yes, they do count in your undergraduate GPA for med school applications. I was in exactly the same situation and had to report all my community college classes (which I took after the summer of 10th and 11th grades ten years ago). It was bad for me too, as I wasn't a serious student at that time and didn't care about grades much. I had 'D' and 'C' grades, and my CC average was a 2.7 GPA. 🙁 It does bring down your calculated GPA.

The positive (small positive) is that at least if you did better in your university years, at least you have a positive trend to show.

There's nothing else you can do except hopefully have enough 'A' grades in later years to buffer the damage. If you have taken a lot of classes like I did (I had close to 40 CC credits), it can take a LOOONG time to mend the situation by having to take numerous university science classes. On the other hand, if it was just a couple CC classes, then it shouldn't take your undergraduate GPA down too much. Plus, your 'A's will definitely help. Now just do well in your undergraduate coursework, and you'll be just fine.
 
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It's a good thing to ask this before you take them and decide to bomb them.
 
You wouldn't be saying that if you did well in that class. I don't think the inheret structure of the class caused you to skip classes...
i really didnt even want to take those classes, i was young then and my mom made me cause I did badly in high school chem, the thing is I was also taking a calculus class which was DIRECTLY IN CONFLICT with the chemistry class schedule wise... and i was a dumb kid back then i didnt give a **** and thought **** this **** i can do both im a genius... anyways it was impossible and i just ended up going to the calc class and got an A in it, but never went to the chem class... man why do i get punished now for dumb**** i did in high school so gay
 
i really didnt even want to take those classes, i was young then and my mom made me cause I did badly in high school chem, the thing is I was also taking a calculus class which was DIRECTLY IN CONFLICT with the chemistry class schedule wise... and i was a dumb kid back then i didnt give a **** and thought **** this **** i can do both im a genius... anyways it was impossible and i just ended up going to the calc class and got an A in it, but never went to the chem class... man why do i get punished now for dumb**** i did in high school so gay

yeah i agree its really gay but hey unfortunately its the game.
 
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