Grade replacement really makes old grade disappear?

[treadlightlyx]

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Hey Everyone,

I'm sorry if this question has been asked to death but I've been searching around SDN and I really have been getting so many mixed replies.

From my understanding, grade replacement means that if I took BIO 101, and I got an F - and then I took it the next semester and got an A, then only the A will be calculated in my AACOMAS GPA.

However, med school adcoms can see transcripts, which will reveal both the F and the A, even though the F is not calculated into my GPA (I think?). Oppositely, several posts on here have stated that adcoms don't even see your transcript until you are accepted.

So...do adcoms see your transcript when they receive your application? Or do the only see the AACOMAS transcript, without the old grades?

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

They'll see the whole thing, but they're forgiving and willing to look at potential upward trends in your history such as your retaking Bio 101.

 

[Fargofargo]

You still gotta write in your F in your application. But GPA is calculated with the retake grade.

 

[keels99]

The only way the grade could "disappear" is if your college has a grade replacement program where they take the grade off of your transcript completely. For example, when I retook Organic, I was given 0 credit hours and no grade for my previous class (which is how I had to put it in on AACOMAS since that was on my transcript), but 5 credit hours and an A on my retake. So it just depends.

 

[adriano710]

Hey Everyone,

I'm sorry if this question has been asked to death but I've been searching around SDN and I really have been getting so many mixed replies.

From my understanding, grade replacement means that if I took BIO 101, and I got an F - and then I took it the next semester and got an A, then only the A will be calculated in my AACOMAS GPA.

However, med school adcoms can see transcripts, which will reveal both the F and the A, even though the F is not calculated into my GPA (I think?). Oppositely, several posts on here have stated that adcoms don't even see your transcript until you are accepted.

So...do adcoms see your transcript when they receive your application? Or do the only see the AACOMAS transcript, without the old grades?

For DO, totally replaces it. For MD, I THINK that it averages the two grades...

 

[Alegrete]

Hey Everyone,

I'm sorry if this question has been asked to death but I've been searching around SDN and I really have been getting so many mixed replies.

From my understanding, grade replacement means that if I took BIO 101, and I got an F - and then I took it the next semester and got an A, then only the A will be calculated in my AACOMAS GPA.

However, med school adcoms can see transcripts, which will reveal both the F and the A, even though the F is not calculated into my GPA (I think?). Oppositely, several posts on here have stated that adcoms don't even see your transcript until you are accepted.

So...do adcoms see your transcript when they receive your application? Or do the only see the AACOMAS transcript, without the old grades?

For DO, your GPA is calculated using only the most recent time you took a class. Therefore, in your example, your F on BIO 101 would not be used to calculate your GPA, being replaced by your A. If you had the opposite (for example, got an A the first time and an F the second), only the F would be used to calculate your GPA.

With that in mind, you will write all your courses taken, organized by semester, into AACOMAS. That means both your F and A will be visible to adcoms. Although you can, theoretically, have an AACOMAS GPA of 4.0 (if you retake all your courses and got an A on the retakes), they will see all the previous classes you took and their retakes.

AMCAS also requires you to write all your courses taken, organized by semester, but they don't do grade replacement. That means your F and A will be averaged together when calculating GPA.

I hope that helps! Good luck this app season!