How does AMCAS gpa grid work if you have a significant amount of dual enrollment coursework?

[Jayal]

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Hi, i'm being neurotic as heck right now, and just wanted to ask about the amcas year in college classification..

Say someone took about 64 credits of college coursework during high school, that obviously goes in the high school section; but what about the following year (first time freshman year?) Would the grid go something along the lines of:

HS: 64credits
FR: credits from summer to spring, first year (19-20)
SO: credits from summer to spring, second year (20-21)
JR: credits from summer to spring, third year (21-22)
SR: credits from summer to last credit taken? (22-23+)

I'm technically a first time in college freshman, but I have junior status.
Just asking since I'm in the process of reinvention and want to have a glimpse of my gpa trend.

 

[Jayal]

Thank you, but I’m confused on whether my FR,SO,JR,SR years will reflect my actual years in college, regardless of credits I have.

basically what I’m asking is, will my 4 years in college be based on calendar years instead of credits since I took so many during high school?

Also, I wasn’t aware there was a post-bacc line, is there anything wrong with just taking a lot of credits, as well as a double major in my senior year, versus graduating early and re-enrolling?

@gonnif

 

[LizzyM]

AMCAS has a line for coursework taken prior to HS graduation.
Then the next ~30 credits are labeled freshman year (it could be over more than one academic year if you went part time or withdrew and returned, etc), the next ~30 sophomore, ~30 junior and everything else up through graduation, or your last 30 before graduation, are labeled senior. In other words, some people who do college in ~90 credits (because of AP course credits) will have freshman, sophomore, senior.
Undergraduate classes taken after you graduate are "post-bac" and graduate classes are just that.

There is no advantage I can think of to taking classes after college graduation if you have the opportunity to take them before.

 

[Jayal]

AMCAS has a line for coursework taken prior to HS graduation.
Then the next ~30 credits are labeled freshman year (it could be over more than one academic year if you went part time or withdrew and returned, etc), the next ~30 sophomore, ~30 junior and everything else up through graduation, or your last 30 before graduation, are labeled senior. In other words, some people who do college in ~90 credits (because of AP course credits) will have freshman, sophomore, senior.
Undergraduate classes taken after you graduate are "post-bac" and graduate classes are just that.

There is no advantage I can think of to taking classes after college graduation if you have the opportunity to take them before.

Thank you so much! So just to clarify, say I take 100 credits during university after dual enrollment, my first 30 credits from uni would be freshman, next 30 would be sophomore, and my last 40 would be senior? and these also includes W's correct?

 

[LizzyM]

W's don't earn you any credit so they don't count in first 30, second 30, etc.
If you earn 100 credits, they would be divided by academic year taken, or in chunks of ~30. In other words, if you took 34 the first year and 28 the second year they would be chunked that way but if you took 16 your first year, 15 your second year, 30 the third year and 30 your fourth year, the first and second years would be combined to make up the equivalent of a freshman year of enrollment.