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Science GPA more important than Cumulative GPA?
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It depends.
Some schools like Wayne State will consider your sGPA more heavily.
For example, if you have a crappy cGPA from undergrad, you can remedy the situation by completing 20 hours of post-bacc science classes and they will use that as your sGPA.
I think a strong sGPA is more important to schools in an overall sense. Since medical school is largely science based for the first 2 years.
Some schools like Wayne State will consider your sGPA more heavily.
For example, if you have a crappy cGPA from undergrad, you can remedy the situation by completing 20 hours of post-bacc science classes and they will use that as your sGPA.
I think a strong sGPA is more important to schools in an overall sense. Since medical school is largely science based for the first 2 years.
I also think sGPA is more important. I realize the post bacc thing but I was just wondering about the traditional "4 years undergrad then med school" path
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Did you miss the inference?
If they weight the post-bacc sGPA higher, then in their regular admissions standards for those without a post-bacc the sGPA must also rank higher on the totem pole.
Meh, this may or may not be the case. A post-bacc is usually done when a non-traditional student returns to college to pursue medicine after trying another career first. Medical schools may very well look at the post-bacc science courses of that student and be more forgiving of their other grades than they would for a student who is on the traditional 4-years-straight-to-medical-school track. I have no knowledge either way, just pointing out that because they favor post-bacc science classes over cumulative GPA for those who do a post-bacc doesn't necessarily mean they will favor science classes for the traditional student.
