Medical School

[Darkleopard4444]

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Hi

I am trying to figure out how medical school will recalculate my GPA. As a Freshman, I went to a university and got ten A's and a B+. Their grading scale included the plus/minus system. I then transferred as a Sophomore to be closer to home. This school has no plus/minus system instead they use A B C D F. When I transferred they brought my old grades over and calculated a new GPA with their grading system and now my B+ is a B. I didn't know how medical school would recalculate my GPA with that grade as a B or B+. Thank you for any assistance that you could give me.

 

[candbgirl]

It isn't the med schools that do the calculations. It is AMCAS. If you go to that site it is probably explained about how + and - are handled. You do submit a transcript from every college you attended so it doesn't matter what your new school did when you transferred!

 

[Mad Jack]

They calculate it based on the original grade awarded, not on what it transferred in as. AMCAS will request a copy of your original university's transcript, as well as your new university's transcript, and will use the grade you were awarded when the course was originally taken at its home institution, not the grade recorded by the institution you transferred into.

 

[Darkleopard4444]

So just to clarify what you just said. If I took a class and got a B+ and then when I transferred it turned to a B on their transcript then AMCAS will calculate it as a B+ from the original institution that I took the class, right?

 

[TastingJustice]

So just to clarify what you just said. If I took a class and got a B+ and then when I transferred it turned to a B on their transcript then AMCAS will calculate it as a B+ from the original institution that I took the class, right?

Yes. AMCAS instruction manual, page 53:

"AMCAS counts grades and hours assigned by the school where the courses were originally taken, not by any school that might have granted transfer credit. The only exceptions to this rule are foreign coursework transferred to a U.S. or Canadian institution and coursework taken through an official study abroad program."