GPA questions

[Mrhyde]

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Hi, I found a GPA calculator that my schools pre-health website had. And I plugged all my info into the excel sheet. Hopefully I did it correctly. My question is that the excel sheet gave me 3 GPA numbers.

This is what the excel sheet gave me:

AMCAS GPA CALCULATOR


1) Cumulative Undergraduate AMCAS GPA: 3.628

2)Cumulative Undergraduate BCPM AMCAS GPA: 3.472

3) Cumulative Undergraduate All Other AMCAS GPA: 3.826



I want to know:
- I know it says "BCPM" = Biology, Chemistry, or Math Class BUT What does AMCAS stand for ?
- what these 3 GPAs mean exactly?
- Which of these 3 are the important ones for dental school?
- and if these numbers are average , below average, or above average ?
- Is an important GPA calculation missing or are these the only ones I need to understand?

Thanks for any help

 

[bwc]

So AMCAS is the name of the common application service for medical schools. You enter your coursework into the AMCAS application, and the AMCAS GPA is the GPA that AMCAS calculates for you based on the coursework you entered and the AMCAS grade weights. Medical schools use AMCAS GPAs for a number of reasons, including to normalize applicants' GPAs since GPA may be calculated differently from institution to institution, and to factor in all coursework if coursework was completed at more than one institution.

For dental schools, their application will calculate an overall GPA, science GPA, BCP (biology, chemistry, physics) GPA, and non-science GPA. It is a fairly similar concept to the AMCAS overall and science GPAs. All of them are important, particularly the BCP and science GPAs. Science GPA will include your BCP courses, in addition to math, engineering, computer science, etc. courses. You can see the classifications here: http://www.adea.org/uploadedFiles/G...l_ADEA_AADSAS/ADEA-AADSAS-Course-Subjects.pdf.

I'd say your numbers will probably get you in somewhere, provided that the rest of your application is good.

 

[Mrhyde]

So AMCAS is the name of the common application service for medical schools. You enter your coursework into the AMCAS application, and the AMCAS GPA is the GPA that AMCAS calculates for you based on the coursework you entered and the AMCAS grade weights. Medical schools use AMCAS GPAs for a number of reasons, including to normalize applicants' GPAs since GPA may be calculated differently from institution to institution, and to factor in all coursework if coursework was completed at more than one institution.

For dental schools, their application will calculate an overall GPA, science GPA, BCP (biology, chemistry, physics) GPA, and non-science GPA. It is a fairly similar concept to the AMCAS overall and science GPAs. All of them are important, particularly the BCP and science GPAs. Science GPA will include your BCP courses, in addition to math, engineering, computer science, etc. courses. You can see the classifications here: http://www.adea.org/uploadedFiles/G...l_ADEA_AADSAS/ADEA-AADSAS-Course-Subjects.pdf.

I'd say your numbers will probably get you in somewhere, provided that the rest of your application is good.

thank u