<p>Do they look at all the college courses you've ever taken, or just the ones you've graduated from (your main college)? (See title)</p>
<p>All grades from college courses taken at accredited institutions are factored in your AMCAS application.
This obviously includes transfer courses, including courses taken in high school.</p>
<p>This also includes retaken courses, so if you got a C in a class, retook it, got an A, that C doesn’t just go away.</p>
<p>^If that’s the case, does that C and A average together when they calculate your GPA or do they take the higher grade?</p>
<p>Every course counts. There is no grade forgiveness. Ever.</p>
<p>Okay. If you retook it a second time, does it look worse? Or not much?</p>
<p>It looks worse (esp if you don’t ace the class second time thru).</p>
<p>As others have said, every grade you’ve received from an accredited institution of higher education (no matter when or where you took it) must be reported on your application.</p>
<p>For allopathic schools, there is no “grade forgiveness” - all grades are averaged equally. If you took the same class 10 times, those 10 grades would count equally toward your GPA.
At osteopathic schools, however, (the AACOMAS application) they only factor the most recent grade into your GPA (whether it is higher or lower than the first grade) - you still have to report the first grade, and schools can see that grade as well, but it isn’t factored into your GPA.</p>
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<p>NEVER retake a course unless you have to. For the sake of med school admissions, that means that you either failed the course or you got less than a C in a pre-req. Period.</p>
<p>Do they look at all the college courses you’ve ever taken, or just the ones you’ve graduated from (your main college)?</p>
<p>think about it…if med schools only looked at the grades from the college you graduated from, then students would transfer after finishing their pre-med pre-reqs and then finish their major at some school where their GPA would be super high.</p>