Medical School GPA

[Member244322]

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I'm applying to Medical School this summer and was wondering if the GPA the medical schools see is the GPA from the college you attend or if it the GPA that you put through the AMCAS GPA calculator. My GPA for my college is higher than my AMCAS GPA because we are on the +/- system. Also when schools ay they're average GPA for an incoming class is 3. whatever is that the overall GPA or science GPA?

 

[xXIDaShizIXx]

I'm applying to Medical School this summer and was wondering if the GPA the medical schools see is the GPA from the college you attend or if it the GPA that you put through the AMCAS GPA calculator. My GPA for my college is higher than my AMCAS GPA because we are on the +/- system. Also when schools ay they're average GPA for an incoming class is 3. whatever is that the overall GPA or science GPA?

I was kind of wondering that, because mine slightly varies as well. Consider this a bump.😀

 

[sector9]

I'm applying to Medical School this summer and was wondering if the GPA the medical schools see is the GPA from the college you attend or if it the GPA that you put through the AMCAS GPA calculator. My GPA for my college is higher than my AMCAS GPA because we are on the +/- system. Also when schools ay they're average GPA for an incoming class is 3. whatever is that the overall GPA or science GPA?

Med schools won't see your college's calculation of your GPA. They'll only see AMCAS's.

If they don't specify which GPA then they're talking about cumulative GPA. Usually they specify though. The MSAR has both cumulative and science GPA for each school.

AMCAS also uses +/- so I'm not sure what you mean by the difference

 

[FrkyBgStok]

AMCAS uses +/- however not for A+. If your school gives 4.33 for A+, Bummer.