Few AMCAS Questions

[Premed00]

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Hi everyone,

I'm a junior who took a gap year during the 20-21 academic year (because of COVID). I took Physics I in Fall '20 and Phy II in Spring '21 at another institution, which transferred to my college. I know summer courses are usually counted toward the next academic year (i.e. a student starting college in Fall '18's summer 2019 courses would count toward their sophomore GPA)...but how would AMCAS count my two courses? I was going into junior year (thus I am now a junior after returning from the gap), so would these count as junior courses (they were in between my sophomore and junior enrollment)...or a completely different GPA?

Also, does anyone know if I can NOT count independent work (junior paper, thesis, etc.) in my AMCAS GPA? We don't get course credit for independent work, though my school does clearly show them on the transcript and they appear just like any other course (because technically they are to be considered in our GPA like a normal course)...my school doesn't have course credit hours anyway—they just say that each course should be assumed as "4 credits." I'm asking in case my independent work grade(s) are not good.

Thank you!

 

[LizzyM]

The first 30 credits are freshman year and the next 30 (give or take) are sophomore year. So, whether physics I and II, taken by themselves would be added into freshman year or bounced to sophomore year depends on how many credits you took as a freshman.

If you have a grade on your transcript and the school states that the grade should be assumed to be for 4 credits then I'd consider that item on the transcript as 4 credits at 4.0 or 3.67 or whatever the grade was.... That doesn't seem to be a difficult decision if one thinks critically.