Does graded research credits go into your science GPA?

[byeh2004]

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Does graded research credits go into your science GPA?

 

[finch]

yes, if the research is done in the field of biology, chemistry, physics or mathematics.

 

[snobored18]

Hells yes...although they really screw you over on the credit hours...at my school it was credited as a full 4 semester hour class with lab component and the stupid AMCAS people only listed it as 3.3 credit hours...WTF...a little pissed cause it brought my BCPM down a little...but yeah I definitely got four semesters worth of research credit down...i think its really helping because it looks like I was a badass and overloaded for 4 straight semesters since I elected to do graded research and write a dreaded honors thesis...in the end I suggest all pre-meds bite the bullet and write...it is something that gets mentioned at every interview

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Does graded research credits go into your science GPA?

Yes, but be careful, a sub 3.5 science gpa with lots of research credits (anyone not get A's in research?!? ) may raise red flags.

 

[gujuDoc]

Does graded research credits go into your science GPA?

I'd assume so, unless the grade is S/U grades. If that's the case it won't make a huge difference in your gpa one way or another.

At our school, unless your research is honor's thesis, they only give S/U credits for undegrad research so it does no good.

 

[snobored18]

i dunno about your guys schools but at mine its not uncommon to hear of people getting B's or even C's in independent research...and not for lack of effort...profs just grade hard across the board and expect you to earn an A, as I was told you start with an A and every time you **** up it goes down...clearly its easy to **** up here

 

[QuantumMechanic]

i dunno about your guys schools but at mine its not uncommon to hear of people getting B's or even C's in independent research...and not for lack of effort...profs just grade hard across the board and expect you to earn an A, as I was told you start with an A and every time you **** up it goes down...clearly its easy to **** up here

wow, at my college, the classes are hard, but the profs make research easy A's.

 

[dr.z]

wow, at my college, the classes are hard, but the profs make research easy A's.

Yeah, I got bunch of those too.

 

[byeh2004]

Hells yes...although they really screw you over on the credit hours...at my school it was credited as a full 4 semester hour class with lab component and the stupid AMCAS people only listed it as 3.3 credit hours...WTF...a little pissed cause it brought my BCPM down a little...but yeah I definitely got four semesters worth of research credit down...i think its really helping because it looks like I was a badass and overloaded for 4 straight semesters since I elected to do graded research and write a dreaded honors thesis...in the end I suggest all pre-meds bite the bullet and write...it is something that gets mentioned at every interview

Awww.. do you know where I can find the conversion scale?

 

[snobored18]

I think they just made it up...I started a side project trying to figure out if the potassium channels i have been studying played a role in K+ dependent apoptosis in human cell lines in another lab and that should have been a half credit course (2 semester hours) and they listed this course as 4 semester hours...if my GPA's had been below 3.7 I would have tried to get these anomalies fixed but...I applied a little late so i figured once you pass the 3.7 threshold it doesn't matter from the school I go to.

 

[jebus]

yes, if the research is done in the field of biology, chemistry, physics or mathematics.

Yeah, make sure it's in one of these fields. I did neuroscience research in a pharmacology lab and got pharmacology department credit. Well, all I did in the lab was molecular biology and biochemistry, but Pharmacology isn't in BCPM so my 15 credit hours of 4.0 weren't used to calculate my BCPM GPA. Aaaaargh! So just be careful!