Unusual GPA questions

[rachroo]

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Hi everyone; I have some unusual GPA questions.

When everyone posts their GPA here on the boards are you listing what your GPA was when you applied to vet school (like what you put on your VCMAS) or are you listing your final GPA after factoring in ALL your grades.

Also, my school does the credits for science courses kind of odd. We're on semesters and instead of listing, say, Chemistry, as a 4 credit hour class plus the lab we have the class as 3 credits and then the lab as a separate class as 1 credit. Should I factor my class and lab grade together for the final grade for Chemistry or list the chemistry class and my grade and then the chemistry lab and my grade?

If anyone has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated.😀

 

[akitavet]

Mine is the whole shebang. It combines undergrad and grad grades and those few prerequisites that I took elsewhere.

Oh, and I dont think that its particularly unusual for courses to have a separate lab grade. Mine are listed on my transcript separately and are calculated in just like a 1 credit hour class for lab and 3 (or 4 as the case may be) credit hour course for the lecture.

 

[rachroo]

*bump

Another quick question for those of you who are in-the-know. 🙂

When a school asks for science GPA does this include that individual school's science pre-reqs, or your entire science GPA from all science classes you have ever taken? Also, is math/stats/social sciences (like psych) included?!

 

[projekt]

Science GPA is vet school dependent, so you'll have to ask the admissions office for each one you are applying to if you want to know how they will calculate it.

When you get to the point of entering in all your courses to VMCAS, it lets you choose whether a class is listed as a lab or a regular class. It's all pretty self-explanatory, although quite annoying. Now that all the schools seem to be using peoplesoft, can we integrate this somehow? 🙂

 

[CanadianGolden]

My labs and lectures were separate. I listed them separately (as you should) with their individual grades. It wasn't a problem.

I posted my GPA when I applied to vet school--I've only had 4 more courses graded since then, so far. I think science GPA is often all science courses, but may vary from school to school. Their forms should specify.

 

[Steelmagghia]

My GPA that I give is the GPA that TAMU recalculated. So it isn't the FIRST GPA that I sent to VMCAS, but it is my GPA after the second round of transcripts for applications. There isn't much of a difference there, though, since it only includes one extra semester.

As prjkt said earlier, science GPA calculations change based on the school (and sometimes the year), so no one can really give you a good answer to that.

My labs are listed separately as well, and VMCAS (and TMDSAS, in case you're interested in A&M), both give you the ability to list the labs separate from the class. Do that, as it will be more accurate and there will be no question as to whether you had laboratory work to go with certain classes.

 

[bunnyslippers]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but

I was checking out the VMCAS application (I signed up to review the newest version before its released) and I noticed that they ask for a student reported overall GPA.

I've taken classes at so many colleges, but about 40% are from one school and another 40% are from the school I ultimately graduated from. When I checked the instructions it says if you've been to multiple schools that each calculate your GPA separately to list the GPA of your primary school (ex: the one you got your degree from). Despite what it says do you have to do this or is it just to make your life easier? Did any of you calculate and list your total GPA for every class you've taken? I have a decently lower GPA from the school I graduated from and wish I could put my real overall GPA instead of that one. I'm worried that schools will see my "primary school" GPA and cut me without taking into account how good all the rest of my other grades are. Does this happen?

 

[tastrophe]

This is just me, but I would do what they ask for and then list the additional info in the other comments section (assuming they still have something like that in the new version?). IMHO, though, your "primary school" is not necessarily the one you got the degree from - if you took more courses at school A but received your degree from school B, I would list school A's GPA as the primary.

Sorry to hijack your thread, but

I was checking out the VMCAS application (I signed up to review the newest version before its released) and I noticed that they ask for a student reported overall GPA.

I've taken classes at so many colleges, but about 45% are from one school and another 40% are from the school I ultimately graduated from. When I checked the instructions it says if you've been to multiple schools that each calculate your GPA separately to list the GPA of your primary school (ex: the one you got your degree from). Despite what it says do you have to do this or is it just to make your life easier? Did any of you calculate and list your total GPA for every class you've taken? I have a decently lower GPA from the school I graduated from and wish I could put my real overall GPA instead of that one. I'm worried that schools will see my "primary school" GPA and cut me without taking into account how good all the rest of my other grades are. Does this happen?

 

[clawsbeatskin]

I listed my overall as my ugrad and grad combined, since I had two different degrees.

 

[stick91]

I've got another perhaps unusual GPA question. My school does GPA on a 12pt system (A 12pts, A- 11, B+ 10, etc) On the traditional 4 pt system does an A count the same as an A-, a B+ the same as a B-? Does it vary from school to school?

 

[pupsforseeing]

for schools that do +/-, an A=4.0, A-=3.67, B+=3.33, B=3.0, etc. at least that's how it's worked at the colleges i've attended. it seems you could just divide your gpa by 3 and be all set 🙂

 

[rtc86]

it does vary slightly between the schools apparently cuz the one i'm attending uses A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3 B=3.0 etc

 

[purplebunnie]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but

I was checking out the VMCAS application (I signed up to review the newest version before its released) and I noticed that they ask for a student reported overall GPA.

I've taken classes at so many colleges, but about 40% are from one school and another 40% are from the school I ultimately graduated from. When I checked the instructions it says if you've been to multiple schools that each calculate your GPA separately to list the GPA of your primary school (ex: the one you got your degree from). Despite what it says do you have to do this or is it just to make your life easier? Did any of you calculate and list your total GPA for every class you've taken? I have a decently lower GPA from the school I graduated from and wish I could put my real overall GPA instead of that one. I'm worried that schools will see my "primary school" GPA and cut me without taking into account how good all the rest of my other grades are. Does this happen?

I have two undergrad degrees from two different schools. I did overall GPA like this:

School A GPA times # of credits from School A
School B GPA times # of credits from School B

Add both together and divide by total number of credits

Seemed to work fine as far as applications went.