Ok people... explain this!

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starsweet

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PharmCAS has finished calculating my GPAs and they have broken them down into Science, Non-Science, Math, etc. as you are all aware of. Because my ENGINEERING courses fall under the SCIENCE category, my Science GPA is low, even though all my pre-pharmacy courses had high grades (As or Bs, and actually very few Bs). So will pharmacy schools look at this Science GPA to base their admissions? I thought they were supposed to base admissions on overall GPA and perhaps pre-pharm classes GPA? There really needs to be a separate category for Engineering courses.
 
Doh, I agree, was hoping I would be able to put some in the Math category 🙂
Hopefully my 3.0 in math will suffice lol, thanks for the heads up.
 
Krismeese said:
Doh, I agree, was hoping I would be able to put some in the Math category 🙂
Hopefully my 3.0 in math will suffice lol, thanks for the heads up.
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Let me guess... you're an engineer right?

I'm just afraid these schools will look at my way higher Non-Science GPA and wonder why I'm not doing liberal arts instead? 😳

Luckily, my Math is pretty high as well. But, the engineering classes really do screw with your Cumulative too (as if the Science wasn't enough).
 
starsweet, engineering courses are a different beast entirely. Relax. You're not alone. I graduated in '01 w/a BS degree in computer science. I had only a 3.1 GPA in my computer science coursework, and I'm pretty proud of it -- still am, lol... Since I've come back to school, I've made sure to nearly straight A all my pharmacy prerequisites to compensate for my "Office Space" past. 😀
 
crossjb said:
starsweet, engineering courses are a different beast entirely. Relax. You're not alone. I graduated in '01 w/a BS degree in computer science. I had only a 3.1 GPA in my computer science coursework, and I'm pretty proud of it -- still am, lol... Since I've come back to school, I've made sure to nearly straight A all my pharmacy prerequisites to compensate for my "Office Space" past. 😀
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LOL, "Office Space" past says it all... 😀

I guess I was concerned that it would look weird because my Science GPA is below 3.0 and my Non-Science and Math are well above 3.5. But thanks for your reassurance!
 
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