GPAs from different colleges

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how do medical schools average GPAs from different colleges?
if I received 3.8 and 3.5 from two different colleges, do medical schools just
add those two numbers together and divide by 2?

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they take all your classes as if you took them at one school, scale them to their standard AMCAS tables so all A's or A-'s mean the same (b/c at diff schools they are counted differently) and then give you a new gpa. It won't necessarily be the average of those two gpa's but it will be in that ballpark.
 
they take all your classes as if you took them at one school, scale them to their standard AMCAS tables so all A's or A-'s mean the same (b/c at diff schools they are counted differently) and then give you a new gpa. It won't necessarily be the average of those two gpa's but it will be in that ballpark.

wait I thought they assigned different grade points to each letter grade. like 4.0 for A+ and 3.7 for A and 3.5 for A-...

are you sure all A's get the same grade point which is 4?
lol then it's helpful to get a lot of minuses... lol j/k
 
haha i was unclear. i meant that an A will always be 4.0 but at some schools A+ can be 4.0 or 4.3, AMCAS makes it 4.0 standardly. A- is 3.7 standardly for AMCAS. So they just make it a different standardized number for each grade regardless of school. Sorry about the confusion.
 
wait I thought they assigned different grade points to each letter grade. like 4.0 for A+ and 3.7 for A and 3.5 for A-...

are you sure all A's get the same grade point which is 4?
lol then it's helpful to get a lot of minuses... lol j/k

no...for AMCAS:

A, A+ = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3.0
B- = 2.7

etc...
 
no...for AMCAS:

A, A+ = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3.0
B- = 2.7

etc...

so they don't take course credit into account? so an A is always 4.0 whether it's from a 1 credit course or a 4 credit course?
 
as with any gpa, each class's grade is then weighed differently depending on the credit hours. so no, 1 credit 4.0 is not the same as 4 credit 4.0.
 
so they don't take course credit into account? so an A is always 4.0 whether it's from a 1 credit course or a 4 credit course?

Well they use quality points to create your gpa...so obviously a 4.0 in a 4 credit course is going to be worth more than a 4.0 in 3 credit course
 
Well they use quality points to create your gpa...so obviously a 4.0 in a 4 credit course is going to be worth more than a 4.0 in 3 credit course

quality points for a class = credits * grade point value for grade in class (Ignore all non-grades like Incomplete, Withdraw, Pass, etc)

Add up all credits and quality points, divide quality points by credits, get AMCAS GPA.

Here is a spreadsheet. Just plug in all your graded classes, presto it calculates everything for you! 😀
 
I know that AMCAS dings the GPA for minuses, but do they add 0.3 back in for plusses (not the A+, but the other letter grade plusses) as a poster is suggesting here? i am a year away from doing this, but I thought I read this differently in an AMCAS pdf...
 
I know that AMCAS dings the GPA for minuses, but do they add 0.3 back in for plusses (not the A+, but the other letter grade plusses) as a poster is suggesting here? i am a year away from doing this, but I thought I read this differently in an AMCAS pdf...

Yes, a B+ is between an A- and a B, in terms of point values...
Grade Lookup Table (Type 1)
a+ A 4.00
a A 4.00
a- A- 3.70
b+ B+ 3.30
b B 3.00
b- B- 2.70
c+ C+ 2.30
c C 2.00
c- C- 1.70
d+ D+ 1.30
d D 1.00
d- D- 0.70
f F 0.00
e/nc F 0.00
e F 0.00
nc F 0.00
u F 0.00
u/r f 0.00

Refer to the Tables tab of my spreadsheet (attachment above) to see how it's all calculated.
 
Yes, a B+ is between an A- and a B, in terms of point values...
Grade Lookup Table (Type 1)
a+ A 4.00
a A 4.00
a- A- 3.70
b+ B+ 3.30
b B 3.00
b- B- 2.70
c+ C+ 2.30
c C 2.00
c- C- 1.70
d+ D+ 1.30
d D 1.00
d- D- 0.70
f F 0.00
e/nc F 0.00
e F 0.00
nc F 0.00
u F 0.00
u/r f 0.00

Refer to the Tables tab of my spreadsheet (attachment above) to see how it's all calculated.

Thanks...how about the D-...now that does wonders for a GPA, huh? I have one B+ so I am pleased with this information.
 
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