Undergraduate Classes During Masters Program

[relentless11]

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Hi all,

I'm faced with an interesting predicament. My research professor has recently said he'll sponsor me into a MS or PhD program in Comparative Pathology, so thats the good news.

However my problem is i've been doing an unofficial post-bacc program for a year now to pull up a pretty crappy cumulative GPA. If i recall, taking graduate classes will not count towards my cumulative GPA. Of course I understand that in the end my grades will be split into their respective components. With that in mind, if i took upper division undergrad courses during a graduate degree program, would these classes count towards the cumulative undergrad course GPA, or the graduate GPA?

I'm not concerned about grad school, I just want to do whats best for my overall med school app. The only thing holding me back from ever applying is my GPA.

On a side note, and i'll do a search on this too, but what does look better? An unofficial post-bacc program or a masters program? I've heard two sides to this. I will be planning to apply to a standard MD program, so i guess research may not help as much.

 

[LoveDoc]

i had the same problem.

i took undergrad classes labeled as a grad student.
on AMCAS i labeled it as grad work. AMCAS then
went back and reclassified all my "grad" undergrad
work as post-bacc hours. hilariously enough,
i am NOW part of a formal post bacc program.
so them reclassifying brought my post-bacc
GPA down by .2 😡

but i'll get over it. so the answer is, AMCAS
considers undergrad work taken as a grad
student as post-bacc hours regardless.