How do Med Schools Calculate GPA?

Shraf
Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:14:00 +0000

cooljoe, I had a feeling from your posts that you were still a HS student.

Why are u worrying about this now when you dont even know the grading system of the college you go to. There is no set standard for colleges, nor is there a standard within a college…each class is independant. Clearly u will not choose a college according to its grading scale…if even there is such a thing. The AMCAS conversion thing is just a way to try to standardize grading among all the colleges in the US, so there is no advantage whatsoever to going to a college that uses any one of those scales.

I really dont understand how HS kids can think so far ahead to all the details of med school like this…take it one step at a time so that you dont look too far ahead and stumble in the short-term as a result. Also, if you are set on one thing that you want to do from HS, you might miss out on something you will enjoy doing more or be better at.