PSEO how badly will it affect me??

[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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[medickdb]

I'm sorry, but what is PSEO?

 

[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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[medickdb]

Sorry, it's Post Secondary Enrollment Option. It means I attended a local CC during my junior and senior years of HS.

Oh, I see. Retake any C/D/F science courses starting with the lowest grade, easiest courses first. I don't think you'll have much of a problem with the nonscience courses as they were so long ago and in high school (even though they count as college), especially if it's only a couple of bad grades. You seem to have made an improvement after high school, so that will look good.

 

[DoctorKrieger]

Upward trends are looked at, but you'll need to retake the courses you made a D in and most/all off the courses you made a C in. Does your 3.72 include those grades?

 

[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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[medickdb]

No my 3.72 was strictly my 4-year. When I transferred they gave me credit, but no grades. I should retake everything with a C/D or just science? I don't know if a school would let me retake a basic gen ed class for the heck of it.

You may not have to retake the nonscience C/Ds. It depends on how many. Did you take any courses at your undergrad that could qualify as a retake for any of them?

@Goro would know better than me about if you really need to retake those nonscience courses.

 

[DoctorKrieger]

No my 3.72 was strictly my 4-year. When I transferred they gave me credit, but no grades. I should retake everything with a C/D or just science? I don't know if a school would let me retake a basic gen ed class for the heck of it.

I'm not sure how credit without the grades is going to fly with AACOMAS anyway. I'd start with retaking sciences courses, depending on what your cGPA is after that, you might not need to bother with non-science retakes. This program you participated in makes it an unusual scenario and I would advise you to contact AACOMAS and probably Goro too.

 

[Plecopotamus]

Hi there! I've only just recently confirmed my decision (I've been wavering for about a year now) to pursue a career in medicine. The problem is, though my actually undergrad grades are fine (BA in English with a 3.72), my PSEO grades are terrible and they include some of my sciences. I'm planning to retake the science courses, but my other classes still hold grades as low as a D and quite a few Cs and Bs.
At the time I thought the PSEO program was great and I even graduated early from my undergrad once I transferred to a 4-year, but I just can't get over those bad grades. How harsh will they be about that when reviewing my transcript? Or is there some sort of understanding (upward trend?) that will help them overlook my lowered uGPA?

How low are they, how many are they -- how far down do they bring your overall uGPA?

There's been so many posts like this, I'm beginning to feel like these "dual enrollment" and "PSEO" grades shouldn't count in AMCAS or AACOMAS at all unless you're using them to satisfy undergraduate or premed requirements or if you were over 18. I think high schools are offering these more and more as a selling point to make the school look better, but kids who may never have seriously considered their career goals are being allowed to make decisions that can necessitate costly post-bacc repair and I've never heard of any career advising to warn about this. I had a lot of cc and extension credits from high school beginning when I was just 13 years old -- luckily I did well in these random language and math classes that I took for fun, but I have a hard time feeling like it would have been justifiable to penalize my adult self for courses I took at an age when my success was at the mercy of other people for transportation and facilitating a good study environment. All the other bad decisions you make in high school roll into where you get into college, but then they disappear -- these should be no different (unless you elect to use them as per above).
<Sigh. Stepping off soap box>

 

[Goro]

What is your cGPA? sGPA?

The whole thing, not just the UG school.

No my 3.72 was strictly my 4-year. When I transferred they gave me credit, but no grades. I should retake everything with a C/D or just science? I don't know if a school would let me retake a basic gen ed class for the heck of it.

 

[Plecopotamus]

No my 3.72 was strictly my 4-year. When I transferred they gave me credit, but no grades. I should retake everything with a C/D or just science? I don't know if a school would let me retake a basic gen ed class for the heck of it.

I'm not sure how credit without the grades is going to fly with AACOMAS anyway. I'd start with retaking sciences courses, depending on what your cGPA is after that, you might not need to bother with non-science retakes. This program you participated in makes it an unusual scenario and I would advise you to contact AACOMAS and probably Goro too.

I think he just means that the school she transferred to didn't transfer the grades onto their transcript? Presumably the original CC has a transcript, and that will be what goes to AACOMAS and used for the GPA.

OP, you need to figure out your cumulative GPA with all of your grades factored in to figure out where you actually stand.

 

[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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[Plecopotamus]

I'm not sure on my sGPA as I'm waiting for an official transcript to me sent to me. I had a problem where I missed a final due to personal reasons and I don't know if they have me a WF or just an F in A&P 1.

WF = F in the AACOMAS system, so it doesn't matter. If you possibly got just a W then it's like you didn't take the class.
http://www.aacom.org/Documents/AACOMASInstructions.pdf

 

[Mrs.Buckeye1992]

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