Question about submitting final transcripts to a school after getting accepted

[PAtoPharm]

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Most pharmacy schools want accepted applicants to arrange for transcripts from universities they've taken classes at to be mailed directly to their pharmacy program. I have a quick question about this. When these transcripts are received, what do they actually do with them? Do they base the applicant's final "applicant GPA" off of the GPAs on the transcripts they receive?

Also, what if someone applied and was accepted with a grade of WF on their transcript? PharmCAS doesn't give any weight to WF grades (I.e., it is just like a W), but most universities consider a WF to carry the same GPA weight as an F. So what happens if someone applied via PharmCAS and was interviewed/accepted with a 3.5 PharmCAS GPA? When the pharmacy program receives the transcript from the school and sees that the accepted applicant's GPA is really (for example) a 3.35 with the WF factored in, will they rescind the applicant's acceptance?

Thanks

 

[FlexiblePharm]

It depends on the school. Just ask the school(s), and if you're embarrassed do it from a different email account posing as an applicant for the next cycle.

 

[PAtoPharm]

It depends on the school. Just ask the school(s), and if you're embarrassed do it from a different email account posing as an applicant for the next cycle.

Thanks for the tip, I'll see about doing that. Could the school actually accuse me of academic dishonesty when they receive my transcript and see that my GPA for one particular school I attended is a 2.95 and not a 3.4, which is what PharmCAS lists it as (due to PharmCAS not giving WF grades any weight)? If I submitted my transcripts to PharmCAS, entered my grades correctly, and had them approved by PharmCAS, didn't I do everything I was supposed to do?

 

[FlexiblePharm]

Thanks for the tip, I'll see about doing that. Could the school actually accuse me of academic dishonesty when they receive my transcript and see that my GPA for one particular school I attended is a 2.95 and not a 3.4, which is what PharmCAS lists it as (due to PharmCAS not giving WF grades any weight)? If I submitted my transcripts to PharmCAS, entered my grades correctly, and had them approved by PharmCAS, didn't I do everything I was supposed to do?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. PharmCAS gonna PharmCAS and schools know this. If the school really cared so much about WF and W, they would have calculated it and rejected you. Or they calculated it and found nothing lacking.