Engineer UG to Medical School

WayOutWestMom
Mon, 24 Aug 2015 05:54:22 +0000

You said you were going to get a MS in engineering. (CivE, I assume?) You did not say you were planning on entering a SMP–which is entirely different situation.

Graduate and undergrad GPAs are calculated and reported separately on your AMCAS application. Many med schools use undergrad cGPA to auto-screen out applicants. This is true even if the applicant has a master’s or PhD.

Because there is widespread grade inflation at the graduate level, med schools devalue graduate GPAs. This is true even for SMPs.

Engineering courses are not included in sGPA calculations. Only courses with departmental designators for bio, chem, physics and math.

AMCAS does not allow a re-taken course grade to replace an original course grade. All grades–both the original and retake–will be included in GPA calculations. (This means it’s going to take an awfully, awfully lot of As to raise a 3.35 GPA to a 3.9 GPA. Assuming you have approx 90 credits currently, you’d need over 400 additional credits to improve your GPA to 3.9.)