GPA and B+, B, B-....etc

[NCF145]

Do medical schools take into account + and - when they calculate your gpa? Also, does anybody know if the texas schools use the +,- system or if they just use the straight letter grade?

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[wolfram241]

Don't know about Texas, but...

A = 4
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3
etc

 

[DrBowtie]

AMCAS uses + and - if your school does.

 

[jebus]

yes and no, texas doesn't.

 

[Risa]

AMCAS uses + and - if your school does.

No they don't :-(. AMCAS turned my A+s into plain As.

 

[DrBowtie]

Do A+'s count as 4.3 at your school or 4.0? If it is the latter then it doesn't matter. The school won't see it.

 

[NCF145]

Originally posted by desiredusername
no, texas doesn't.

Great, so if your school is on the +,_ system that means that texas will see your gpa being lower than what your school says...

 

[jebus]

Great, so if your school is on the +,_ system that means that texas will see your gpa being lower than what your school says...

This only happens for your pluses. If you have some minuses your GPA goes up, up, up!
And I don't care what Risa says, AMCAS kept my A-'s and B+'s where they belong.

 

[Risa]

This only happens for your pluses. If you have some minuses your GPA goes up, up, up!
And I don't care what Risa says, AMCAS kept my A-'s and B+'s where they belong.

I'm only talking about A+'s -- my A-'s and B+'s stayed where they belong too. It's sad about the A+'s though, since their purpose was to cancel out A-'s (average 3.66 and 4.33 to equal 4.00; since AMCAS converted the A+'s to regular A's, they now average out lower.) Oh well though, my slightly lower AMCAS gpa doesn't seem to have hurt me in the app process!

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I got screwed on the A+ thing, too, for my graduate school GPA. Of the three undergraduate schools I've attended, only one has pluses and minuses, but the highest grade awarded is an A, not an A+, so I wasn't screwed with the ugpa. I doubt it really matters, though, but it dropped my graduate gpa from a 3.6 to a 3.5.

 

[NCF145]

For some reason my school doesn't do -'s they only do +'s, so that means my score can only go down, down, down. Oh well, ill just have to make 4.0s until I graduate.

 

[DesiMcatAcer]

Great, so if your school is on the +,_ system that means that texas will see your gpa being lower than what your school says...

Texas cutts the -, + system, a B+, B- or B will count as a B as 3.0.....and A-or A or A+ will count as A and 4.0.....so basically I think usually peoples GPA tends to increase for TMDSAS.

 

[DrBowtie]

For some reason my school doesn't do -'s they only do +'s, so that means my score can only go down, down, down. Oh well, ill just have to make 4.0s until I graduate.

That system is the best. I wish I had those. A-'s terrify me.