How is it fair to combine undergrad with professional GPA...

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...and then use that GPA to determine who gets magna/summa cum laude at graduation?

Am I just completely insane to think this is ridiculously unfair?

Someone could hypothetically have a 4.0 in pharmacy school, but if they went to a difficult university for undergrad (or had a difficult time as an undergrad...8 years ago), they would lose honors to someone who went to community college for 2 years prior.

Do your schools determine class rank/graduation honors this way? Because mine does and at this moment I feel like I worked hard, and the COP just stomped all over my face and sent me away with a box of turds.

 

[mustang sally]

Don't know if it's fair or not, but that's how my school did it. My pharmacy GPA was actually fairly high but I didn't graduate as high as other people in my class because my undergrad GPA lowered my overall GPA so much.

I guess it stinks, but in the long run it's not too important. Better to worry about employment opportunities and things of that nature.

 

[297point1]

I'd agree that it doesn't seem quite fair...probably why my school doesn't do it that way.

Do you happen to transfer into a traditional 0-6 school?

I would be very surprised to learn if your school's policy is the norm; seems like a lot of unnecessary effort to account for credit loads and course grades when it'd be much easier to focus on grades earned in the PharmD program.

 

[owlegrad]

I agree that it sounds odd, but in the grand scheme of things it sounds very 'first world problems' to me.

 

[confettiflyer]

I think the reality is most employers and/or residency directors won't care...they'll go "oh, nice GPA...but are you clinically competent and not a jerk off?"