screwed up...

[MYMD]

Originally Posted by lizzy2k6

If the med schools don't count those community college classes into my gpa then it's possible that i could make a 3.96 by the end of this fall...i like that number...i don't like the 3.64. oh well i have 4 years to bring it up...heh


THANKS FOR ALL THE ADVICE GUYS!!

Dream On, All College grades are reported. I think you are fine though. I disagree that taking an extra year or 2 to get to apply to medschool messwith your chances since the average age is now 24 to 26 not 22 like once.

Good Luck.

[Tamim]

Originally Posted by MYMD

Dream On, All College grades are reported.

If you retake a class, which grade counts, the original or the retake grade?

[lizzy2k6]

only courses taken at the university would count towards the university gpa, but both grades would be on my transcript...i don't know if it's worth it to retake it or a waste of time. a year of english is required for med school so maybe i should retake it...atleast the one i made a C in...i want to go to baylor soooo badlyy but that C might ruin my chances

[MYMD]

Originally Posted by lizzy2k6

only courses taken at the university would count towards the university gpa, but both grades would be on my transcript...i don't know if it's worth it to retake it or a waste of time. a year of english is required for med school so maybe i should retake it...atleast the one i made a C in...i want to go to baylor soooo badlyy but that C might ruin my chances

Look I'm not trying to beat this into the ground but........ All grades count, retaken or not, they look at ALL GRADES and do their own GPA, it is not the one calculated by any college, it is a Special GPA done just for Medical School Applications, Yes it's not fair but thats the game they play in the states, welcome to the rat race of applying to medschool. The darn English is not a SCI course so it won't scew that up and the SCI GPA is super important!
You can have a 3.7 over all but if the SCI gpa is 3.8 then it does make a difference, this is medical school not liberal arts LOL.

So yes they see all college work, all UNIs all CCs all of it. and two GPAs are calculated from it an Over all and a SCI.