Pharmacy classes part of Bio GPA?

[kimothy_777]

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Hey everyone,

I have a question about GPA calculations. I am a pharmacist that has decided to pursue dentistry. My pre-req GPA was 3.75 for pharmacy, which is essentially a BCP GPA. I just saw a list on here from 2011 that showed pharmacy classes being categorized as bio classes. This is shocking to me considering they would have no idea what is even covered in the pharmacy curriculum, as "Pharmacy" is a very general description and so much of it is not science related at all...! Just looking at my transcripts...

-Drug Use and Patient Care
-Jurisprudence
-Role of the Pharmacist in the Canadian Healthcare System
-Pharmacy laws and ethics
-Pharmacoepidemiology
-Pharmacy Management
-Provincial and Canadian Health Care

All show up as PHARM ### on my transcripts. The reason I'm upset about this is that if all 45 of my "PHARM" courses fall under my BCP GPA (not to mention overall science as well), my GPA is absolutely ruined. The curve was ridiculous in pharmacy school...my lowest percentage in any class was 85% yet that was a C+ on the curve. My pharmacy GPA was about 3.3, but since its so many more credits than everything else, it'll dominate my GPA...I'm so distraught! Does anyone know for sure whether these would count towards my Bio GPA, or if there's anything I can do about it? Or do they consider difficulty of courses taken?

 

[sjv]

Pharmacy classes are still listed under Biology for 2014-2015, put them down as such and if they don't like it during verification, they will change it for you.

 

[doc toothache]

In the list of biology courses, pharmacy is used as a generic. At best, pharmacology, physiology and perhaps a few other pharmacy courses will likely be listed under biology (med chem under chemistry); the remaining will be distributed among others, mostly non science. In any case, you will not be able to escape your past performance in a professional school and, at best, you will have a high science gpa and a lower overall gpa.

 

[kimothy_777]

In the list of biology courses, pharmacy is used as a generic. At best, pharmacology, physiology and perhaps a few other pharmacy courses will likely be listed under biology (med chem under chemistry); the remaining will be distributed among others, mostly non science. In any case, you will not be able to escape your past performance in a professional school and, at best, you will have a high science gpa and a lower overall gpa.

Would you suggest I categorize them all as non-science then, and let AADSAS change as they see fit? Really none of the classes fit under any specific science...it was module/systems based, so each system included it's own progression of anatomy->physiology->epidemiology->individual disease states->med chem->pharmacology->therapeutics->patient cases->lab scenarios with patients etc. How far does AADSAS go in determining what classes should fit where?

 

[doc toothache]

Would you suggest I categorize them all as non-science then, and let AADSAS change as they see fit? Really none of the classes fit under any specific science...it was module/systems based, so each system included it's own progression of anatomy->physiology->epidemiology->individual disease states->med chem->pharmacology->therapeutics->patient cases->lab scenarios with patients etc. How far does AADSAS go in determining what classes should fit where?

Maybe other science:
-Pharmacoepidemiology
-Drug Use and Patient Care

Non science:
-Jurisprudence
-Role of the Pharmacist in the Canadian Healthcare System
-Pharmacy laws and ethics
-Pharmacy Management
-Provincial and Canadian Health Care

 

[kimothy_777]

So my classification ended up being quite arbitrary. For example, Pharmaceutics 1 was given Non-science, whereas Pharmaceutics II was given Biology - this ended up being to my advantage since I did better in II.

Overall I'm quite happy with where my GPA landed, but there are a couple classifications I totally disagree with, and a change could improve things more. Is it worth my time to challenge - is it ever successful - is there a way to 'prove' something isn't a Biology class? I'm thinking no, ?, and no, but opinions would be helpful. Thanks!