Question on how med schools verify gpa?

[tm4545]

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I'm a nontraditional at the beginning of considering try for med school. Working professional, out of school 5 yrs, BS and MS in chem.

I'm a little confused on how my prior coursework will factor into cGPA and sGPA. For example - some semester/some quarter, if masters coursework counts towards overall cGPA, if some of masters coursework would be c vs sGPA (seminar credits). Also did inorganic chem II at community college so I'm not sure if that would be an issue as a prereq.

Any idea of guidance on how to calculate GPA for med school? Starting from ground zero on how this works, I'm afraid. Thanks for any advice!

 

[DrMidlife]

Med school application services do the GPA calcs. (Med schools might also do some calcs, but they don't share details.)

Grad and undergrad are not mixed together at all. Undergrad is considered the important GPA since it's normalized against the MCAT.

Semester/quarter conversions are done by a formula that can be found in the app service instructions. The math is simple, but start up a spreadsheet.

Doing one prereq at a community college isn't a problem.

Definition of "science" varies for US MD, TX MD/DO and DO.

For MD schools, go to aamc.org and find the AMCAS instructions.

For Texas, find TMDSAS.

For non-Texas DO schools, go to aacom.org and find AACOMAS.

Best of luck to you.