GPA Calculations

[FutureDrB]

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I think we've had this discussion before, but could someone who knows for sure clarify... What GPAs are "officially" taken into consideration?

Is this correct? I'll have an:

• Undergraduate GPA (classes obviously taken as an undergraduate)
  
• Science GPA (all science classes)
  
• Post-bacc GPA (classes taken after undergraduate degree awarded, but not graduate school classes? How does this work with undergraduate retakes, taken after graduating, would those be considered post-bacc or replace the figure used in undergraduate calculation?)
• Graduate GPA (classes applicable to graduate degree)
  
• Cumulative GPA (what all is taken into consideration here? Everything including undergraduate, post-bacc and graduate?)
• Individual GPAs (freshman, soph, junior, senior -- will these matter as much since my undergraduate was 10 years ago?)

 

[el_duderino]

On your app, there will be a table. Here are the rows:

Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Total Undergraduate (all above years)
Post-bacc
Cumulative Undergraduate (total undergrad + post-bacc)
Graduate
Total (everything)

The columns:

Science
Non-science
Total

How any particular school interprets these numbers is up to them.

 

[FutureDrB]

Okay thanks @jonnythan
Will I see these numbers (the final calculations) so I can compare them to my own calculator before the application is submitted?

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

Okay thanks @jonnythan
Will I see these numbers (the final calculations) so I can compare them to my own calculator before the application is submitted?

Not really, some will be present like cumulative and non-science and stuff. But even if they were present they are likely to change slightly when they go through your transcripts.

 

[FutureDrB]

To add on to the original question, does the grad gpa include non-medical related degrees? I'll have classes from a MLiS degree and MEd degree.

I'm pretty sure it does. Mine is an MEd as well.