If you take medical school classes which are graded as H/HP/P will they impact your GPA or be converted to a grade for AMCAS purposes? Also how bab will it look if you get passes in med school courses if you have a strong UG gpa?
Post-bac grade question
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Med school is grad school, so those grades are separate from your undergrad numbers. See the AMCAS instructions and/or your school's catalog for letter/number equivalents. AMCAS instructions for 2010 are at http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2010instructions080409.pdf, pages 51-52.
With respect to the consequences for getting low grades in an SMP, there are no simple questions and no simple answers. If your undergrad GPA is high, the first question will be why are you in an SMP? If your undergrad numbers, MCAT and ECs/LORs are sufficient to get you interviews, then your SMP performance is a verification that you're going to succeed in med school, and I wouldn't worry about pass grades. If your premed package is not good enough to get you interviews, then your SMP performance needs to be what gets you interviews - and you'll need to step it up.
Best of luck to you.
