GPA Calculation Question

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Do medical schools take into account the different scales of credit hours for courses taken at different schools? I took a bunch of college classes in HS and that university was on a quarter system, where, for some reason, the school assigned double the credit hours for a quarter-length class than my real university did for a semester. This noticeably skews my GPA towards my HS classes.

Thanks for the help!

 

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AMCAS will recalculate your GPA under these circumstances. Your transcript should have all that it needs for AMCAS to work its magic.

 

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AMCAS will use the credit (quarter or credit) assigned to school unless the school’s transcript signifies that it was a “special” system. In other words if you took what would usually be a 3 quarter unit course (for 9 quarters for the year = 6 semester hours for a year as in an introductory sequence) but your HS era college gave you 6 quarter hours per segment (18 quarter hours per year), it will converted to 12 credit hours. AMCAS will only do what the transcript says

Gonnif, thank you for responding. I don't think I totally understand. For my HS era college, they assigned 4 credits per quarter and a full sequence took three quarters. In total, that's 12 credits per sequence. My real university assigned 6 credits for the equivalent sequence. Are you saying that the AMCAS will convert it to the 6 or will they leave it at 12?

 

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It all depends n what the school puts in its transcript as an index or guide. If they have something saying that 180 quarter hour needed for graduation, then AMCAS will not change the weighting. If they say 360 quarter hours for graduation , then AMCAS will adjust.

The HS university did require 180 to graduate. However, my university only required 120. Does the adjustment go in the other direction? My real university did provide a conversion guide for credits from the other school to their system on the transcript. What are the chances that'll be used?

 

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-Both colleges are “real” schools
-what one school does is immaterial to what the school does
-in all likelyhood AMCAS will not, repeat, will not somehow weight “down” the HS era courses. Each quarter hour will be 2/3 a semester hour.

That's unfortunate. Well, there's nothing to do about it now! I don't regret taking those HS classes at all. Taking OChem in HS was a real trial by fire experience for me and it taught me how to be a real student. I know I wouldn't have done nearly as well in college without it. Still, it's a bummer that it'll follow me all the way to med school. Thank you very much for your help. I really appreciate you clarifying this for me.