question reguarding repeating units

[CaliforniaKid]

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I've been reading around the forum regarding repeating courses and have found that DO schools will take the higher grade of a repeated course with the assumption that the class is the same course e.g. the same credit hour/unit.

Does anyone know how the following scenario will work.

lets that you originally took 1 year of organic chemistry at a quarter system, that was 4 units x 3 quarter= 12 quarter units.

lets say you decided to repeat these courses in another school that was on a semester system,
at this school O-chem was 5units x 2 semester= 10semester units. (which is 15 quarter units)

Since the 12 units does not equal the 15 repeat units, will the repeated grade be used in GPA calculation? or will both grades be counted because the units are not equivalent?

 

[QuackaDO]

Unfortuantely I don't have an answer for you but do have a very similar question that I'd like to piggy back (sorry for the minor hijack) on with you here...

If a course was taken at one school (we'll say Ochem I for arguement) and the grade was poor and sometime later you decided to retake Ochem I at a different school will they count both grades becuase they are from different schools or will the highest only be accounted for an the fact that they came from 2 different schools does not matter?

 

[Semicolon]

I've been reading around the forum regarding repeating courses and have found that DO schools will take the higher grade of a repeated course with the assumption that the class is the same course e.g. the same credit hour/unit.

Does anyone know how the following scenario will work.

lets that you originally took 1 year of organic chemistry at a quarter system, that was 4 units x 3 quarter= 12 quarter units.

lets say you decided to repeat these courses in another school that was on a semester system,
at this school O-chem was 5units x 2 semester= 10semester units. (which is 15 quarter units)

Since the 12 units does not equal the 15 repeat units, will the repeated grade be used in GPA calculation? or will both grades be counted because the units are not equivalent?

AACOMAS will not take the highest grade, but the LATEST grade. Meaning if you received a worse grade in your retake, the worse grade would be counted (so make sure you do better 😉). In your situation, the repeated course WOULD be counted as a retake and would replace the original grade because it was worth more units/credits than the original course. A retake does not have to be worth the exact same credits; it can be worth more and still count.

Unfortuantely I don't have an answer for you but do have a very similar question that I'd like to piggy back (sorry for the minor hijack) on with you here...

If a course was taken at one school (we'll say Ochem I for arguement) and the grade was poor and sometime later you decided to retake Ochem I at a different school will they count both grades becuase they are from different schools or will the highest only be accounted for an the fact that they came from 2 different schools does not matter?

Where you took the courses makes no difference. What matters is how many credits they were worth, and how equivalent the courses are. If the retake was worth the same or more credits, then it will be counted regardless of where you retook it. And as I stated above, AACOMAS will not necessarily take the highest grade.