Post Bacc Grades

[stookie]

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How are your post bacc grades calculated with your undergrad grades? Can someone give me some insight about how post bacc grades are viewed by allo and osteo med schools?

 

[Law2Doc]

How are your post bacc grades calculated with your undergrad grades? Can someone give me some insight about how post bacc grades are viewed by allo and osteo med schools?

On AMCAS, there is a separate column for postbac grades (as there also is for graduate grades). However, when they calculate total undergraduate level cum, there is a combined ug and postbac figure on the application as well. Thus most people assume that is the figure med schools use as your cumulative GPA with respect to cut-offs, giving figures to ranking services etc. Graduate grades are never combined, so don't help your GPA. Osteo is different if there are retaken courses in the postbac -- a course that is retaken will allow you to supplant a prior grade with a subsequent one. Thus a GPA can jump up faster, as you aren't simply averaging everything.

 

[Sundarban1]

On AMCAS, there is a separate column for postbac grades (as there also is for graduate grades). However, when they calculate total undergraduate level cum, there is a combined ug and postbac figure on the application as well. Thus most people assume that is the figure med schools use as your cumulative GPA with respect to cut-offs, giving figures to ranking services etc. Graduate grades are never combined, so don't help your GPA. Osteo is different if there are retaken courses in the postbac -- a course that is retaken will allow you to supplant a prior grade with a subsequent one. Thus a GPA can jump up faster, as you aren't simply averaging everything.

Actually, your overall and science GPA is calculated 37 ways for osteopathic schools, one of which includes graduate school credits. I was not aware of this until I contacted AACOM directily, but evidently this is true, but not for allopathic schools.