Dual Credit and College GPA

runcrosscountry
Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:07:37 +0000

So I know this is early to think about this, but I’ve been curious about this. I am a straight A student, take 5 AP classes along with some other classes and science electives, etc, and have a pretty good high school gpa. I decided to take the dual credit courses offered at our school this year, and ended up being incredibly overextended when combined with my extacurriculars and while going through a tumultuous time, ending up with three C’s and a B (all in various social studies classes) in my college classes while maintaining A’s in my high school courses. While I’ve since learned my lesson, I’m still stuck with those grades, and have now been wondering how they would affect my college and grad-school plans. I’ve been told that none of the grades will affect my college gpa, but many med schools will take the cumulative gpa of all the college courses you’ve ever taken, even while still in high school. If I were to maintain good grades (aka A’s), will those four classes kill my gpa and my chances of getting into a decent med school, even if my “real” college gpa would be good?