What's an A- to adcom?

[akaCobee]

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So I had a pretty decent semester but I will be receiving A-'s (90-94) in some of my classes. At my school, A-'s aren't considered 4.0 and can actually lower GPAs. And I really just hate the concept of them, I feel that an A is an A and that there should nothing in between. How do admission committees see A-'s? And does AMCAS recalculate your GPA and consider A-'s as A's (I'm not familiar with the format of the AMCAS app, I'll be applying this summer)?

 

[gyngyn]

3.7
https://aamc-orange.global.ssl.fast...140d8acb35af/amcas_grade_conversion_guide.pdf

 

[aalamruad]

😕 They see them as A-'s. 3.7.

 

[Saifa]

My school is 3.67. Jerks.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

For purposes of AMCAS (ACCOMAS and TMDSAS), it doesnt matter. One of the goals of a having centralized application systems for all allopathic, osteopathic, and Texas medical schools, is take the thousands of disparate student transcripts with various grading and credit hours and have them presented in standardized format with normalized GPA calculations. Thus all A-, no matter how your specific institution calculates the value, will be normalized at a 3.7 value with a semester credit weighting.

Just to note, TMDSAS only uses A/B/C/D/F with no +\-. So an A- is a 4.0 in Texas. Gotta love Texas doing its own thing, not like that's a surprise or anything.

 

[Saifa]

For purposes of AMCAS (ACCOMAS and TMDSAS), it doesnt matter. One of the goals of a having centralized application systems for all allopathic, osteopathic, and Texas medical schools, is take the thousands of disparate student transcripts with various grading and credit hours and have them presented in standardized format with normalized GPA calculations. Thus all A-, no matter how your specific institution calculates the value, will be normalized at a 3.7 value with a semester credit weighting.

Interesting, I still have much to learn about how AMCAS works in the coming months.

 

[doctorbob23]

They won't care as much as you think.

Maybe they''ll think it's a smudge on their computer screen

 

[Turkishking]

Most schools consider an A- a 3.67 but medical schools view A- as a 3.7.. so that helps a bit I guess lol. But you should have went to a school where a 90 is an A. But a 89.99 would be a B.

 

[WedgeDawg]

My school is 3.67. Jerks.

So was mine, but AMCAS still calculates it as a 3.7 (and B+ as 3.3, not 3.33), so your AMCAS GPA (which is what med schools see) and your undergraduate GPA may be slightly different.