How is undergraduate GPA calculated

[londongal]

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I finished my BA (psych) last spring. Since then I have taken a few courses at a CC...providing their not science courses, will all the classes I take from now on go towards my undergraduate gpa? Technically everything I take from now on is post graduate.

I'm not happy about my undergraduate gpa, so how can I raise this? I'm taking sociology 101 right now at a cc, along with physiology. I know physiology will go towards the science portion of the gpa, but what about soc? will this get factored into my undergraduate gpa?

 

[DrMidlife]

I finished my BA (psych) last spring. Since then I have taken a few courses at a CC...providing their not science courses, will all the classes I take from now on go towards my undergraduate gpa?

Yes. Assuming you want to eventually apply to med school, you have to submit every college transcript you ever received, and all the undergrad work gets averaged together.

Technically everything I take from now on is post graduate.

No. It's postbaccalaureate. Post graduate is what you do after grad studies. More to the point, postbac counts as undergrad.

I'm not happy about my undergraduate gpa, so how can I raise this?

Take more undergrad. The more you take, with great grades, the higher your GPA goes. But it never goes very high, because of the "A" in GPA. You're maxed out around the 6 year mark. See the postbac forum for low GPA options.

I'm taking sociology 101 right now at a cc, along with physiology. I know physiology will go towards the science portion of the gpa, but what about soc? will this get factored into my undergraduate gpa?

See the AMCAS instructions, page 43, for how coursework is categorized. DO and TX schools have different categorizations.
You realize you have about two years of ass-kicking science to complete, right? Chem, ochem, physics, bio, with labs, at least.