"postbaccalaureate undergraduate" - issue with categorizing course in amcas

[nolee]

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Just a super fast question that I feel incredibly dumb about asking--if I took courses after I graduated from college, but was NOT enrolled in a postbacc program, would I categorize the course as "postbaccalaureate undergraduate" or simply "undergraduate"? Thank you all!! =)

 

[BLACKMD]

Undergrad. Don't put postbac. A postbac is a specific program to raise your GPA. Yours would just be a 2nd bachelors, which is what I'm doing too.

 

[gmcguitar4]

Any course after you finish your undergrad is considered post-bac course work. You earned your bachelors at that point, so everything is post-bac from then on. Makes sense.

 

[alpinism]

Unless you enrolled in a 2nd bachelors program, anything after graduating is considered post-bacc.

 

[gravitywave]

Post #3 is correct. #2 and 4 are not. Anything you've done after receipt of your first bachelors is post bac, unless the credits are applied to a graduate degree.

 

[BLACKMD]

That is not true. There are designated postbac programs and that is what the question is asking. If you've enrolled for a second bachelors then NO it is not considered a postbac program.

 

[sector9]

The instruction manual is very clear about this... You put them down as Postbacc if you took the classes after graduating

That is not true. There are designated postbac programs and that is what the question is asking. If you've enrolled for a second bachelors then NO it is not considered a postbac program.

The question is asking what AMCAS considers it, which is definitely postbacc

 

[Mt Kilimanjaro]

That is not true. There are designated postbac programs and that is what the question is asking. If you've enrolled for a second bachelors then NO it is not considered a postbac program.

This is false.

Read the AMCAS manual. They are listed as PB on the AMCAS.

 

[nolee]

Thank you so much everybody! I was looking through the manual but didn't see that...a massive thank you again to everyone who answered. 🙂

 

[occams_razor]

That is not true. There are designated postbac programs and that is what the question is asking. If you've enrolled for a second bachelors then NO it is not considered a postbac program.

as others have said, even if you are getting a 2nd bachelor's it's still post-bacc

 

[aspiring20]

ANY undergrad-level course (regardless of where you take them or under what program you take them) you take after getting your BA/BS counts as "postbacc" on the AMCAS

However, all "postbacc" categorized courses count as your overall undergraduate cGPA/sGPA, so in the end, it makes no difference.

I think it goes

Freshman undergrad
Sophomore undergrad
Junior undergrad
Senior undergrad
Postbacc undergrad

all of the above counts for the infamous undergrad cGPA/sGPA