Question about GPA calculation....

[MJB]

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I'm wondering how the GPA is calculated if you retake courses (pre-reqs) at a seperate university from the one where your undergrad is from...are those grades just added into the others for one cumulative calculation or do they replace the grade you achieved previously (assuming you improve it)?

I ask this because I have some C's that I would like to change into A's now that I've grown up and will go to class and other crazy stuff like that.

 

[Law2Doc]

I'm wondering how the GPA is calculated if you retake courses (pre-reqs) at a seperate university from the one where your undergrad is from...are those grades just added into the others for one cumulative calculation or do they replace the grade you achieved previously (assuming you improve it)?

I ask this because I have some C's that I would like to change into A's now that I've grown up and will go to class and other crazy stuff like that.

For Allopathic (MD) the grades of every college or university are all included (both original and retaken) into the AMCAS calculation, and the result is just an average. Meaning if you had C's originally, and get A's on the retake, the net result is B's (with double the weight). I'm pretty sure Osteopathic (DO) is more liberal and lets you only count the retake, but people better informed should please correct me on this if necessary. Bear in mind that any graduate coursework gets lumped into a seperate average, and isn't averaged in with the undergrad stuff on AMCAS (while a postbac of undergrad prereqs would be included into the undergrad GPA).

 

[MJB]

Thank you for the response...I had feared that's what the answer would be. Oh well, best I can hope for is a bunch of B's (overall)...and get a 4.0 in post-bacc