Do DCC courses impact my gpa for AMCAS?

Pre-Med & Medical School
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I’m a highschool senior and I go to a vocational highschool that offers DCC courses(partnered with Rutgers) specializing in medicine like medical terminology or dynamics of healthcare.

My grades in that DCC course isn’t the best and I know my grades in that class aren’t good enough for med school.

I’m worried and just wanted to ask if these DCC course GPAs effect college GPAs for AMCAS.

2

Yes, they do.

Even if your 4 year university gives no credit for the class, colleges classes, including those taken in HS, are figured into your GPA for med school applications

3

When entering coursework, you must include course information, corresponding grades, and credit hours for every course you have ever enrolled in at any U.S., U.S. territorial, or Canadian postsecondary institution, regardless of whether you earned credit.

Coursework includes but is not limited to:

  • All attempts at courses that have been repeated, including any courses removed from your transcript or GPA as a result of academic bankruptcy or institutional forgiveness policies.
  • Courses removed from your transcripts or GPA as a result of academic bankruptcy, forgiveness, or similar institutional policies.
  • Courses from which you withdrew.
  • Courses for which you received a grade of Incomplete and for which no final grade has been assigned.
  • Courses you failed, regardless of whether you repeated them.
  • Remedial and developmental courses.
  • College-level courses you took while in middle or high school even if no college counted them toward a degree.
  • Courses taken at an American college overseas.
  • Physical education and music courses.
  • U.S. and foreign MD courses (DO courses should be listed under regular coursework).

2023 AMCAS Applicant Guide, p. 25

Just remember that you have 3 or 4 more years of college coursework to dilute the effect of any “not the best” grades on your GPA before you will be applying. Make sure you do your best work from now on.

Although these dual enrollment classes will be included in your GPA calculations, AMCAS will list them as being taken during high school on the year-by-year list of coursework it sends to med schools.