Med School Impression on Fixed Pass/No Pass Grading Course

WayOutWestMom
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:16:49 +0000

AMCAS and individual medical schools have access to the official course catalogs of every college in the US. (The catalogs are in a national database.) If AMCAS or particular med school has questions about the specific grading options of your college (such as not offering the option of a grade in certain classes), they will check the database or send an inquiry to the Registrar’s Office of your undergrad.

There is also usually a question on med school secondaries that asks" Is there anything else you would like to tell us?" If you are concerned about how med school perceive the P/NP grades, this would be the place to address it.

As @texaspg states above–Any required med school pre-reqs must be taken for a letter grade or they will not be accepted as fulfilling admission requirements. However, some medical schools (but not all of them) are making exceptions for spring term 2020 courses taken under mandatory P/F grading.

AMCAS will recalculate your GPA using a standardized formula. A+ grades are equivalent to 4.0 so no GPA/sGPA can be higher than 4.0.

https://aamc-orange.global.ssl.fastly.net/production/media/filer_public/78/1c/781c2478-d685-4f1e-ae78-07a765ad4e61/amcas_grade_conversion_guide_students.pdf

Furthermore, some individual med schools will recalculate your AMCAS GPA using their own proprietary methods.