Foreign Credit

[BeakerBreaker]

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Okay so I'm quite stumped here.

I transferred most of my pre-med pre-requisite courses (BCPM) from a foreign institution here. The American institution that I am currently attending has granted me credit but not any grades. I understand that AMCAS will not calculate this into the AMCAS GPA because it's from a foreign institution so, where in my application should I put my grades in just to show the adcoms? Or should I not bother about this at all?

 

[angleslam08]

if you would like to get them to possibly count then yeah go ahead and put them....i did an exchange program at foreign university and assumed based off rules that those grades wouldn't count (my school didnt count them) but then when AMCAS got that transcript i was suprised they did add it to my amcas gpa...lucky they were good grades lol.

 

[BeakerBreaker]

if you would like to get them to possibly count then yeah go ahead and put them....i did an exchange program at foreign university and assumed based off rules that those grades wouldn't count (my school didnt count them) but then when AMCAS got that transcript i was suprised they did add it to my amcas gpa...lucky they were good grades lol.

did you do your pre-requisites at a foreign university or was it just an elective?

 

[Catalystik]

Okay so I'm quite stumped here.

I transferred most of my pre-med pre-requisite courses (BCPM) from a foreign institution here. The American institution that I am currently attending has granted me credit but not any grades. I understand that AMCAS will not calculate this into the AMCAS GPA because it's from a foreign institution so, where in my application should I put my grades in just to show the adcoms? Or should I not bother about this at all?

I'm under the impression that many (though not all) US MD med schools require that the prerequisites be taken at an accredited US or Canadian college. You might check into whether that will apply to you.

If you had a foreign transcript evaluation service "translate" your undergrad grades into US equivalents, some med schools would like to have a copy of that sent to them individually. You might check with your target schools on that issue too.

DO med schools, BTW, do accept foreign transcripts (I assume the translated version), even though AMCAS won't.