grade replacement

[giguerex35]

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since grade replacement is no longer a thing i wanted to know if anybody thinks the gpas for med school would be slightly lower for those accepted. I was looking as last years threads and it seemed that people with average stats 3.3/3.4 cgpa were accepted and that was with grade replacement as well as people with high stats were accepted but i am curious as to if these stats were inflated due to the grade replacement policy and what this years (the first year without grade replacement) will look like gpa wise. Does anybody have any input? will there be a slight dip in the average gpas this year or what.

I am an applicant with average to just belowe average stats so i am curious as to if this will be the case. thanks

 

[zukunft195]

Most likely, the average matriculant GPA will be lower. Less likely, the average matriculant GPA will remain the same and the average matriculant MCAT will be lower (if schools shift more weight onto GPA in order to maintain past GPA averages).

The extent of the drop in matriculant stats will depend on what proportion of past applicants took advantage of the grade replacement policy. If it was a small proportion, then the drop will be modest; if it was a large proportion, then the drop will be large.

 

[Neurodoct]

The population of applicants who used the grade replacement policy compared to the overall applicant pool is quite small. If my memory serves me correct the AACOMAS stated grade replacement increased the cGPA by 0.01 and sGPA by 0.03 for matriculants.

 

[giguerex35]

The population of applicants who used the grade replacement policy compared to the overall applicant pool is quite small. If my memory serves me correct the AACOMAS stated grade replacement increased the cGPA by 0.01 and sGPA by 0.03 for matriculants.

do you know where that was posted becasue i find that hard to believe unless that averaged the numbers of those who improved gpa by x amount with those who didnt use the grade replacement and therefore averaged many 0s in there

 

[Neurodoct]

do you know where that was posted becasue i find that hard to believe unless that averaged the numbers of those who improved gpa by x amount with those who didnt use the grade replacement and therefore averaged many 0s in there

"So AACOMAS gave some more- the people at AACOMAS or AACOM gave some more information and talked about how they looked at data from 2010, the entering class of 2010, and the research department at AACOM researched the impact of the new policy on overall GPA from 2010 using what they say is a statistically significant sampling of AACOMAS applicants. They said that the repeat policy raised the mean science GPA by 0.03 and the non-science GPA by 0.01 on a 4.0 scale."

PMY 216 : What You Need to Know About AACOM Killing Grade Replacement | The Medical School Headquarters

 

[giguerex35]

ah ok so they used data from 7 years ago but thanks for the link much appreciated

 

[ElCucuy]

I'm more concerned regarding the minimums/cutoffs. There is a small population of DO applicants that essentially redid undergrad by taking >60 credits in a post bacc. The applicants that dropped <0.2 on their GPAs should be fine, but these serious re-inventing applicants really got screwed over. There is essentially no way to overcome a C average undergrad degree without an SMP.


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