Fow do admins look at AP credit on AMCAS?

[PMR2626]

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Sorry if this is not in the correct forum but I couldn't find one for it.... I took AP courses in high school in a number of classes. According to the tutorial, you must enter the grade you obtained while in high school. My question is how do admissions typically take this into account in the gpa calculations?

In my instance I recorded the letter grade in my Community College where it was initially recorded as credit. When I went to my 4 year it then transferred as credit towards courses at my school and making them exempt without a letter grade. I see that after filling out the AACOMAS those high school grades altered my final cGPA and sGPA but was wondering what policy AMCAS has for this scenario?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Catalystik]

Sorry if this is not in the correct forum but I couldn't find one for it.... I took AP courses in high school in a number of classes. According to the tutorial, you must enter the grade you obtained while in high school. My question is how do admissions typically take this into account in the gpa calculations?

In my instance I recorded the letter grade in my Community College where it was initially recorded as credit. When I went to my 4 year it then transferred as credit towards courses at my school and making them exempt without a letter grade. I see that after filling out the AACOMAS those high school grades altered my final cGPA and sGPA but was wondering what policy AMCAS has for this scenario?

Thanks in advance!

Since your CC gave you graded credit for the AP test results, I'd enter those. They will be included in your application GPAs by AMCAS.

 

[PMR2626]

Thank you for the advice.

I know this is me being more on the sob story side than anything else but for me personally my science AP courses in high school have been recorded as all B's thus significantly lowering my overall sGPA that I received in college alone. Maybe this is just me but I was not nearly at the same level of aptitude taking an AP course my junior year of high school versus taking that same chemistry course my sophomore year of college, for example, thus not truly representing my collegiate level GPA.

I think I know the answer/reply that's forthcoming- Tough luck you should have retaken them in college to improve the scores while you were attending school.

 

[Catalystik]

Maybe your GPA has been dragged down by your AP credits, but they gave you an opportunity to demonstrate a good upward grade trend. 😉