Clear up my GPA misconception PLEASE :(

<p>OK, well currently I am a junior at a UC and have worked my butt of to maintain a 4.0 GPA. But sadly the day has come when I dont think Ill be able to maintain an A in one of my science classes. </p>

<p>My question is this: when Med schools look at my GPA do they see my cum. GPA with my core science classes, or are they going to see my core science GPA only? And, when us news (yes, i know dont base my choice of med school off of prestige...) says the average entering GPA of med students into school X is X.XX, is that their science GPA cum. GPA or both?</p>

<p>Thnaks
MORECOWBELL!! :-P</p>

<p>Med schools will see your:</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA
Science GPA
"All other" GPA (everything except for science courses)</p>

<p>The GPA quoted in US News is probably the cumulative GPA but if you look at the MSAR (which provides both science and cum GPA's for all med schools), there's not much difference between the two.</p>

<p>lol, dont worry about your GPA, if you have a 4.0 and you get 1 B on your transcript you still have a higher gpa than the VAST majority of med school applicants.</p>

<p>ncg, is it really 3? I knew about the cumulative and the "science" but not the "All other but 'science'".</p>

<p>It's definitely reported, but AOGPA's really not consequential. It's just a mathematical result, of course, of the other two.</p>

<p>ok thanks guys, yeah I see the MSAR is more detailed</p>

<p>As NCG has pointed out, the MSAR uses the statistics for the admitted student pool, not the eventual student body. This is sometimes an important discrepancy.</p>

<p>humm, indeed I wonder how many people an average Med school admits over what they expect/need to enroll. I think the yeild is hovering around 50-60% for most med schools, so it seems logical that if a med school needs, say, 100 applicants then they admit 200? Still out of the tens of thousands that apply, I bet those 200 applicants are statistically the same. Leading to the admitted student pool and student body stats to essentially the same.<----for med schools i think this is the rule of thumb, unlike the large differences one can see in undergrad admissions between admitted and those who accept.</p>

<p>Well, the actual mean is available from USN. The admitted median is available from the MSAR. Comparing these numbers often yields significant differences -- whether from the mean/median distinction or from the admitted/matriculant distinction, who knows.</p>

<p>what happens to the extra admittees at a med school? like for example 200 admittees for a 100 student body</p>

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<p>Have you ever seen a double decker bus? Think double decker classroom. ;)</p>

<p>the yield rates at all med schools are relatively low (generally in the 50% area), so at least half the people admitted to a given med school end up going somewhere else (this is true even of the very top schools), and overall there aren't usually problems with overcrowding. It does happen sometimes though - last year for example, Drexel med enrolled 50 more students than it had intended to (a sizable percentage increase), this resulted in very unpleasant classroom overcrowding and actually some students were offered a year's tuition remission if they chose to defer their admission by a year.</p>

<p>^ WOW, I would defer for sure</p>

<p>if u choose to defer, do u still continue ECs and stuff in the "gap" yr?</p>

<p>You can probably do anything in your deferment year. I'm sure the med school would like to see you do something productive but at that point, you've already been accepted. Of course, if you thoroughly enjoyed your EC's (and weren't doing them just for the sake of med school apps), I don't see why you wouldn't continue them into your deferment year.</p>

<p>but the "science" GPA only includes BCPM right? other sciences would be under AO</p>

<p>That's right, yes.</p>