Grade Replacement Policy Q

[23dancesmile]

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What if I retake an undergrad course as a "nonmatriculating graduate student?" It's not a post bacc program but I can take undergrad courses, will this replace the previous grade?

 

[austintr]

Yep. If it's the exact same class, it doesn't matter if you take it during or after undergrad. It's still an undergraduate class.

 

[23dancesmile]

What if you take additional undergraduate classes during/after college--do those get factored into your undergrad GPA? Or can it only be a repeat course? For ex I have a lot of extra science courses I took at a state uni that I got A's in. Sometimes I only took one or two classes per semester. Would those count?

 

[SailorHg]

What if you take additional undergraduate classes during/after college--do those get factored into your undergrad GPA? Or can it only be a repeat course? For ex I have a lot of extra science courses I took at a state uni that I got A's in. Sometimes I only took one or two classes per semester. Would those count?

As I understand it, they will be factored into your AACOMAS cumulative undergrad GPA, as well as be broken out into their own line as the post-baccalaureate GPA.

 

[DantheManimal]

What if you take additional undergraduate classes during/after college--do those get factored into your undergrad GPA? Or can it only be a repeat course? For ex I have a lot of extra science courses I took at a state uni that I got A's in. Sometimes I only took one or two classes per semester. Would those count?

Short answer: Until you go to a graduate school, anything you do is part of your undergraduate GPA (Although AACOM only counts the most recent grade if you repeated a course, whereas AAMC treats it as essentially two separate courses).

Longer answer: So let's say you completed your Bio, Physics, Chem, and O-Chem at Roast Beef Tech and graduated with a 3.2....You can then go, even to a community college really, and enroll in Health, Geology, Nutrition, Pharmacology, Astronomy, Engineering or whatever, and you can boost up your science (and overall obviously) GPA. ADCOMS might question you about taking certain courses at the community college level, but at the end of the day, A's are A's, which boost your GPA, get you interviews, and put you in a situation where you even get to explain yourself.

 

[darkeon]

Short answer: Until you go to a graduate school, anything you do is part of your undergraduate GPA (Although AACOM only counts the most recent grade if you repeated a course, whereas AAMC treats it as essentially two separate courses).

Longer answer: So let's say you completed your Bio, Physics, Chem, and O-Chem at Roast Beef Tech and graduated with a 3.2....You can then go, even to a community college really, and enroll in Health, Geology, Nutrition, Pharmacology, Astronomy, Engineering or whatever, and you can boost up your science (and overall obviously) GPA. ADCOMS might question you about taking certain courses at the community college level, but at the end of the day, A's are A's, which boost your GPA, get you interviews, and put you in a situation where you even get to explain yourself.

Assuming Roast Beef Tech is accredited 🙂

 

[austintr]

Assuming Roast Beef Tech is accredited 🙂

I mean, it's no Brisket Vocational College, but it'll do in a pinch...