<p>Hi I'm a high school student whos taking community college classes to save money for the future and advance in credits. One of my friends told me that community college classes, especially math, bio, chem or physics will be counted in the GPA calculation for medical school. Is this true?</p>
<p>If you are going to transfer the credits to whatever college that you will be attending, yes. (Because some people can choose not to transfer the credits and te college will never know that you took those classes.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether you transfer it, it counts.</p>
<p>It most definitely counts.</p>
<p>I was accepted into UCSD and SD said that the grades I got in community college will not be counted for the college gpa. But I just don't understand, if it doesn't count for college gpa, how can it count for medical school gpa? The application for medical school, is it like the UC's where u list the grades, and they calculate the gpa themselves instead of taking what the college calculated to be?</p>
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The application for medical school, is it like the UC's where u list the grades, and they calculate the gpa themselves instead of taking what the college calculated to be?
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<p>That's exactly correct.</p>
<p>What if I got a B in community college general physics course that I took during my junior year of high school. Is there any way I can compensate for this in college? I really think this is unfair because this is a class I took in high school. Is there anything I can do in my undergraduate years to compensate for this?</p>
<p>And what if I don't report my community college course taken in high school to medical schools?</p>
<p>1.) You should remember that I have never been able to verify for myself that such grades will count. Others on this board have said it, and it makes sense to me, but I've never actually checked personally. I'm sorry - my previous posts did not make that clear, and they should have. My fault.</p>
<p>2.) However, whether you transfer it to your college or not has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on whether or not it counts. AMCAS does not care what your college recognizes, what your college says your GPA is, etc. They make their own calculation, period.</p>
<p>3.) Compensate for it by simply "washing it out". You'll never erase it, but one B, in the scheme of things, will not weigh that heavily.</p>
<p>4.) Failing to report a grade that medical schools want is fraud, punishable both within the system (revoking your acceptances) and outside of it (fraud charges - unlikely but possible). If they don't want it, they don't want it - but if they do, you MUST give it to them.</p>
<p>Wait so do you still have to give it to them if you don't want credit?</p>
<p>this is answered in post number 3 above.</p>
<p>Whether you receive "credit" at your school is completely irrelevant to the manner in which AMCAS calculates your grades.</p>
<p>AMCAS includes everything. Your home institution might not.</p>