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Hello,
I've tried searching through the forum but couldn't find an answer to my question (apologies if someone has already asked it--please direct me to the page)
I'm currently retaking a couple classes/ they're planned or in progress. Do medical schools include my first attempts into their gpa calculations when the retake is in progress? Or do they treat it as if I haven't taken it yet?
I'm asking because when I filled out my coursework on the aacomas app my science gpa that aacomas calculated was MUCH higher than the gpa that is showing up for the schools (when I view the released pdfs). I know that sometimes the verified gpa can change...but isn't a 0.4 decrease kind of large?
I've been emailing w/aacomas back and forth....and there was some issue of one class not being labeled correctly w/ "RNY" but I'm not sure if that's the actual reason for the gpa drop since most of the courses were labeled correctly and the individual chem/bio/phys gpas were still lowered (the repeats were labeled correctly)
If anyone has some insight I'd appreciate it. I'm wondering if there might be another aacomas mistake (they have told me that everything is ok) or if this happens a lot?
EDIT: After making a few calls I found out the answer. All latest attempts are included in the GPA calculations if the retake has not been completed yet. They only exclude the previously attempted grades once the retake is finished.
I've tried searching through the forum but couldn't find an answer to my question (apologies if someone has already asked it--please direct me to the page)
I'm currently retaking a couple classes/ they're planned or in progress. Do medical schools include my first attempts into their gpa calculations when the retake is in progress? Or do they treat it as if I haven't taken it yet?
I'm asking because when I filled out my coursework on the aacomas app my science gpa that aacomas calculated was MUCH higher than the gpa that is showing up for the schools (when I view the released pdfs). I know that sometimes the verified gpa can change...but isn't a 0.4 decrease kind of large?
I've been emailing w/aacomas back and forth....and there was some issue of one class not being labeled correctly w/ "RNY" but I'm not sure if that's the actual reason for the gpa drop since most of the courses were labeled correctly and the individual chem/bio/phys gpas were still lowered (the repeats were labeled correctly)
If anyone has some insight I'd appreciate it. I'm wondering if there might be another aacomas mistake (they have told me that everything is ok) or if this happens a lot?
EDIT: After making a few calls I found out the answer. All latest attempts are included in the GPA calculations if the retake has not been completed yet. They only exclude the previously attempted grades once the retake is finished.
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