GPA question

[FutureDoctorJ]

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Lets say your undergraduate GPA is 3.0 with no PRE MED courses. You graduated with a Liberal Arts degree. Now you go back to school to do your PRE MED courses, 32 credits and you get straight A's. I know the BMCP GPA would be 4.0, do you also use these extra credits to boost your 3.0? Or does the 4.0 count stricly as post bac work?

Thanks

 

[medicalbound]

In my experience, as long as your post-baccalaureate classes are not toward a graduate degree, they contribute to your undergrad GPA. I'm not saying that AMCAS won't screw this up, but this is how it should work - and did for me.

Good luck!

Lets say your undergraduate GPA is 3.0 with no PRE MED courses. You graduated with a Liberal Arts degree. Now you go back to school to do your PRE MED courses, 32 credits and you get straight A's. I know the BMCP GPA would be 4.0, do you also use these extra credits to boost your 3.0? Or does the 4.0 count stricly as post bac work?

Thanks

 

[Law2Doc]

Lets say your undergraduate GPA is 3.0 with no PRE MED courses. You graduated with a Liberal Arts degree. Now you go back to school to do your PRE MED courses, 32 credits and you get straight A's. I know the BMCP GPA would be 4.0, do you also use these extra credits to boost your 3.0? Or does the 4.0 count stricly as post bac work?

Thanks

Sort of. Everything you take after your undergrad degree is postbac. But med schools reportedly look at the combined undergrad and ug postbac as the primary GPA on the AMCAS form that they focus on.

 

[FutureDoctorJ]

Sort of. Everything you take after your undergrad degree is postbac. But med schools reportedly look at the combined undergrad and ug postbac as the primary GPA on the AMCAS form that they focus on.

Thanks Medbound and Law2Doc...

 

[relentless11]

In my experience, as long as your post-baccalaureate classes are not toward a graduate degree, they contribute to your undergrad GPA. I'm not saying that AMCAS won't screw this up, but this is how it should work - and did for me.

Good luck!

To clarify this, post-bacc = undergrad coursework after receiving your bachelors degree. Graduate degrees (MS/MA, PhD) often have "electives" which you can take, and these may include some undergrad classes. These are still considered as post-bacc and are counted towards the undergrad GPA despite these classes still counting towards a grad degree.

Classes that DO NOT count towards undergrad GPA are graduate and medical school level classes. For example, clinical pharmacology is usually a grad/med level class. Where as Pre-Calculus is not.