My undergraduate institution has my cGPA at 3.45 and my sGPA at 3.39. Is there a way to make sure these r correct and not lower than my institution is reporting?
Excel. Or Google Docs. It's not difficult, just time consuming. Just do it.
Your college doesn't get to be the authority anyway - if you feel doubt about their calcs, you'll feel doubt about AMCAS' calcs. Own the math!
Summer classes should be defined as quarter or semester by the school that offers the classes - in a pinch, figure out how many lecture hours you did in the summer compared with a fall/spring semester class that's the same number of units/credits. What I've seen is that summer term length is usually consistent with fall/spring term length within an institution. So school X isn't going to throw quarters at you for summer when it throws semesters at you the rest of the year.Thank you for the help! I'm just curious, if you took classes over the summer, how do you know what grade level to put that under (ie. junior, senior, etc) and if you took summer classes would that be on a quarter or semester system? I'm not quite sure what to put. I'm assuming classes taken in the fall and spring semesters would be semester system obviously.
Summer classes should be defined as quarter or semester by the school that offers the classes - in a pinch, figure out how many lecture hours you did in the summer compared with a fall/spring semester class that's the same number of units/credits. What I've seen is that summer term length is usually consistent with fall/spring term length within an institution. So school X isn't going to throw quarters at you for summer when it throws semesters at you the rest of the year.
Regardless, listing coursework and doing calcs is very straightforward. Categorization into BCPM and non is well defined, as is conversion from quarters to semesters.
Summer gets grouped in with the following academic year.
AMCAS instructions: highly recommended reading. If you're also applying AACOMAS and/or TMDSAS, there are significant differences, fyi.
Yessssss, f e e l the ownership.Wow, right now the AMCAS excel sheet is saying my cGPA is 3.39 and sGPA is 3.24. that is a bit of a difference from the 3.45 cGPA and 3.3 sGPA my institution reported! Glad I checked this out. I don't know what I am going to do to improve my GPA. I'm not sure if SMP, Post-Bac or just taking more classes at my undergrad institute as non-matriculating would do the trick?
Not sure how a course taken at a school is non-academic. Regardless, every grade you've ever received on any college transcript is to be reported and included in GPA calcs.How does AMCAS treat non-academic courses taken through community colleges or extension schools?
Examples:
- Career-related courses
- Hobby type courses
Not sure how a course taken at a school is non-academic. Regardless, every grade you've ever received on any college transcript is to be reported and included in GPA calcs.
Highly recommended reading: AMCAS instructions
IMHO by the time you figure out how to get what you need out of somebody else's spreadsheet, you could have created your own. Give a fish vs. teach how to fish kind of thing. Plus macro viruses are still around...Blank amcas calculator attached as an excel doc.
If you have no A+'s, they should be the same though.
Blank amcas calculator attached as an excel doc.
If you have no A+'s, they should be the same though.
The college and amcas gpa's should be identical then.
not necessarily. some schools handle retaken courses differently, i.e. some average them, some only count the second attempt. some schools consider a B+ 3.3 and consider 3.5 a B+.