Do you think it's fair that A+s don't count while A-s decrease your GPA?

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Wow. It's almost 50/50 thus far.
I still think A+s should somehow work FOR us...
can't believe AMCAS goes through the trouble to change the A+s to As. How is that fair anyway? Med schools don't even get to see our A+s??

Can you be sure that your A+ is a reflection of either more work or more knowledge of the subject than another student's A?

It isn't like testing or grading are standardized. Many teachers make it very easy to get perfect scores. Last semester, I had between 98% and slightly over 100% in every class. I am not a super genius, so I assume easy teachers had something to do with it.(except one class....that was all me, but that is a different story)

 

[90minIPA]

This thread is blowing my mind. A+'s weren't even given out in my High School, let alone my undergrad.

So I'm pretty happy with the AMCAS policy on A+'s.

 

[Narmerguy]

Wow. It's almost 50/50 thus far.
I still think A+s should somehow work FOR us...
can't believe AMCAS goes through the trouble to change the A+s to As. How is that fair anyway? Med schools don't even get to see our A+s??

Someone correct me but I thought they still see the A+'s on your transcript, it's just that your GPA is recalculated? This could be wrong but I thought this was the case.

And like the above poster said, your A+ does not inherently reflect a higher grade than another student's A.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm glad most schools don't have A+'s. It would force everyone to become unrealistically obsessive about grades just so they can get a perfect score and it's just not healthy in a college student population (and this is coming from someone that has had multiple classes at 99%+). There's more to college than grades and I think that colleges should (and mostly do) encourage that. However, I also go to a private school so maybe state schools do things differently.

 

[NickNaylor]

Someone correct me but I thought they still see the A+'s on your transcript, it's just that your GPA is recalculated? This could be wrong but I thought this was the case.

And like the above poster said, your A+ does not inherently reflect a higher grade than another student's A.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm glad most schools don't have A+'s. It would force everyone to become unrealistically obsessive about grades just so they can get a perfect score and it's just not healthy in a college student population (and this is coming from someone that has had multiple classes at 99%+). There's more to college than grades and I think that colleges should (and mostly do) encourage that. However, I also go to a private school so maybe state schools do things differently.

Some people have said that the AMCAS report includes both the AMCAS grade and the grade that's actually listed on the transcript. I don't know if that's true or not though.

 

[mauberley]

Some people have said that the AMCAS report includes both the AMCAS grade and the grade that's actually listed on the transcript. I don't know if that's true or not though.

Your application should show:

1) OT Hours (original transcript hours)
2) Sem Hours (AMCAS standardized credit hours)
3) OT Grade (original transcript grade)
4) AMCAS Grade (AMCAS standardized grade)

 

[orthomyxo]

For some schools in Canada, AMCAS converts all A-, A and A+ (ie. 80+) to 4.0

Alas, I do not go to one of these magical schools.

Yea, I don't understand their system at all. My physiology professor went to McGill undergrad and he used the same grading scheme (80 = A). It made the class too easy IMO.

And no, I don't think that A+'s should factor into AMCAS.