Foreign Coursework Evaluation at a Community College

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Hi,

I am taking my pre req courses from a Community College - As a part of med school admissions (TMDSAS), I need my foreign under grad coursework to be evaluated by a US institution to meet the 90 credit undergrad requirement.

The Community college was mentioning that they dont have a Transfer equivalency for many for my undergrad courses. But still they did evaluate (their own way - gave me few B's and stuff - which was actually evaluated by a University before as A's) - Is this Community college evaluation good enough to meet the 90 credit requirement ?

Also, as mentioned, Community college evaluated the courses and gave me B's and C's for few, while it was one of the top scores from the Foreign university I went to (It was evaluated as A's by a US university where I had enrolled some time back) - Are those B;s and C's in this community college evaluation for 90 credits going to affect my overall GPA which Med schools look into ?

Thanks.

 

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http://www.utsystem.edu/tmdsas/medical/foreign_Coursework.html

State law requires that academic work taken at foreign colleges, universities or preparatory schools shall be excluded from the calculation of the GPA for students seeking admission to graduate or post-baccalaureate professional school.

So no, the grades assigned to your foreign coursework will not count towards your gpa.

Undergraduate foreign coursework that appears as transfer credit on the transcript of a regionally accredited US college will count towards the 90 hour requirement. Each individual transfer course credit granted by the US school must be listed on the transcript. Lump sum credit with no specific course and hour identification will not be accepted.

My interpretation of this is that unless the community college (or another regionally accredited college/university) deems your credits equivalent to specific courses they offer (with a specific course and credit hour identification) and not just as generic lump sum credit, the credits will not count. I could be wrong however, and I recommend that you contact TMDSAS directly.