Stookie, guess I will chime in here too. The way your post bac GPA is calulated is similar to the way your undergrad GPA is. With AMCAS or AACOMAS, your GPA is differentiated into Freshman, Sophomore, Junion, Senior, Post Bac, and Graduate GPAs, as well as Science GPAs for each year. The schools see each year independently of the other, but also cumulatively meaning Freshman through Post Bac averaged together. Graduate GPAs are figured independently and do no ger factored into your overall GPA, just your graduate. In a post bac program, if you are taking classes at the undergraduate level, these classes get factored into your undergrad GPA. Therefore, if you want to increase your GPA as it stands now, then you will need to take undergraduate level classes. However, you can take graduate level classes to "prove" you can handle the work. You will then get a graduate GPA, and if its a 4.0 with a few classes then that speaks pretty highly.
As for the number of classes you need to take to increase your GPA, that depends on a few factors. How low is your science GPA? Some people has truly abissmal undergrad GPAs, but do a SMP to prove they can handle the coursework and get in that way. Some people take undergrad courses to get their undergrad GPA up so they can "pass" the standards some schools set and then do a masters or SMP to show they can shine. So it really depends on a few factors what you might need to do. You might want to talk with Junebuguf, singingdevil, phil_a, mshheaddoc or any of the mods to get some more advice. Some of these people have worked through low GPAs and are now in med school and are awesome people with a lot of knowledge anyway. Anything else I can help with, I will try. Oh, and you might want to check out the low GPA thread in this forum. Its filled with a lot of helpful info and a lot of success stories. Here is teh link:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=125347&page=1&pp=25
