Postbac GPA

[The Philosopher]

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Alright,

If I am in an MS program and I decide to take a couple undergrad courses which wouldn't count towards my MS degree, will these courses be counted in my "undergrad" GPA on AMCAS or in the postbac/Master's GPA?

And if it is the first option, how does AMCAS distinguish what courses "count" towards the MS/postbac and what don't?

My 2 cent?--I'd assume that after you get your college degree, ALL courses go in a postbac GPA.

 

[dimsum888]

I actually had the same question, any takers?

 

[conure]

You are correct that any class taken after an undergraduate degree is received is counted as a post bac class. As for distinguishing between post bac and masters it gets slightly tricky.

If both the post-bac and masters class are listed on one transcript it all comes down to how you list it on AMCAS. As far as I recall you specify if the class was post-bac education or masters degree related. However, you can only do this when listing the name of the institution. So what I did on AMCAS was to list the intstitution twice. Once as post bac and once as masters and then list the relevant courses under each. Obviously, if they are done at different institutions its not an issue.

Sound confusing? Yeah well welcome to AMCAS.

AMCAS will then calculate seperate GPAs for undergrad, post-bac, and masters. Then there is a cumulative GPA for Undergrad+post-bac, and a cumulative BCMP GPA.

What if you don't list an "undergraduate" level class as post-bac? Will it be counted as Graduate? Yes it will, if thats what the institution was designated as. I suspect on audit though AMCAS may catch the lower course number and question the graduate credit, but who knows.

 

[Cacophony]

I did a master's program and post-bac.

Some of the courses I took during the master's work were undergraduate and did not get included in my master's GPA.

These courses and the postbac all qualify as postbac on AMCAS and are factored together with the undergraduate classes.

Isn't amcas the most fun you have ever had?

 

[krichan]

conversely, if i take graduate level courses through a postbac program, will they count towards the postbac and hence undergrad GPA, or the graduate GPA?

 

[exmike]

If you take undergraduate classes and it is listed on your graduate transcript, it is considered part of your graduate work. That happened to me.

*edit* i suppose it ends up being how you enter them into AMCAS. Mebbe i shouldve put in those classes as post-bacc so I could boost my UGPA.