GPA Calculations - Graduate School Impact?

[Phoenix.]

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I was looking at the AMCAS calculations for determining your gpa, but I couldn't figure out if or how non-science graduate school class grades would impact your gpa for applications to medical school. I.e., would my law school grades have any impact? My undergrad gpa is higher than my grad school gpa, so ideally it'd be nice if it didn't....

I started to think about this after speaking with someone at the admissions department at UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), who said that they simply take every class you've ever taken (including grad school) and that's how they calculate your gpa. I'm assuming that's not the norm....

Anyone know? Thanks.

 

[Phil Anthropist]

For purposes of AMCAS calculations, grades from graduate programs are separated from your undergrad cumulative GPA. This applies to both non-science and bcpm (science) graduate coursework.

 

[Law2Doc]

I was looking at the AMCAS calculations for determining your gpa, but I couldn't figure out if or how non-science graduate school class grades would impact your gpa for applications to medical school. I.e., would my law school grades have any impact? My undergrad gpa is higher than my grad school gpa, so ideally it'd be nice if it didn't....

I started to think about this after speaking with someone at the admissions department at UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), who said that they simply take every class you've ever taken (including grad school) and that's how they calculate your gpa. I'm assuming that's not the norm....

Anyone know? Thanks.

Graduate and professional school grades are put in the graduate school GPA, and don't factor into the undergrad GPA. Undergrad GPA is just undergrad and postbac grades. So its totally separate categories on AMCAS - either your UIC person is misinformed or they recalculate it their own way notwithstanding the AMCAS numbers. However while undergrad GPA (along with the MCAT) is the stat most schools use as a cut-off, all schools will certainly see your graduate grades and GPA. There are any number of ways they can view/treat them and probably no across the board standard.

 

[Phoenix.]

For purposes of AMCAS calculations, grades from graduate programs are separated from your undergrad cumulative GPA. This applies to both non-science and bcpm (science) graduate coursework.

Thanks! Just what I wanted to hear. 🙂