<p>Say you did poorly in a course you took at your university. If you went to another university and took it there over the summer while doing other coursework you were going to complete regardless, how does that impact your grade when you apply for medical school? Are the two averaged? Do they both count in your overall AMCAS GPA?</p>
<p>While there are number of issues that I'm not sure about, like transfer credit and which schools they are and those sort of logistical things, the biggest concern I have is that this seems highly unethical. Character counts in medical school admissions, and I just don't see any way in which you could say that this is an appropriate action. </p>
<p>The only way I could possibly seeing this work is if you permanently transferred to school #2 and the credit didn't, thus forcing you to re-take the class again in order to take other upper level courses...</p>
<p>Hmmm, interesting. I never thought about it from that ethical standpoint (I guess the desire to get into med school makes you a little <em>too</em> competitive every now and then...lol). Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>BRM: As long as he's completely open about it -- and he would certainly have to be open -- I don't know that I see the ethical issue.</p>
<p>"I received a poor grade in Organic Chemistry at UC Berkeley. In order to prove to you that I'm not incompetent at Organic and to really make sure I learned the material, I took it again this past summer at UCLA."</p>
<p>With that said, I still think it's a dumb idea. I'm disputing the rather minor point that I don't see that it's unethical provided it's done openly -- that medical schools know, your professors know, and both schools involved know.</p>
<p>1.) Would these schools even let you do that? My school certainly would not.</p>
<p>2.) There's no benefit to be gained.
--->Either you receive an A this time around -- "Of course he got an A the second time. He'd taken the class before!" -- and you gain no points.
--->Or you don't -- "What? He took the class a second time and still couldn't manage an A?" -- and then you really look like an idiot.</p>
<p>3.) Anyway, your full transcripts from both courses would show up. They would see that you got a C from UCB and a B+ from UCLA, or whatever the case may be. They would both be fully included in your AMCAS GPA.</p>