<p>MY Gpa is solid, around a 3.5</p>
<p>However, at my school and A+/A/A- =4, B+/B/B-=3, and so on.</p>
<p>I have more minuses then regular A's/B's though, will this hurt me if the program I'm applying for still has the average around a 3.5?</p>
<p>I know it's only 1 part of the application, but i's realy worrying me.</p>
<p>I'm applying to specialized business programs in finance.</p>
<p>if the school decides to recalculate your GPA, your A-s will be worth less, but your B+s will be worth more. chances are this will even out, and if your overall GPA is still in the 3.4/3.5 range, you’d be fine. like you said, GPA is just one part of the application, and as long as your grades are high enough to meet programs’ cutoffs, you’ll be fine even if they recalculate your grades.</p>
<p>Just worried because i have WAY more -'s then regular A’s,/B’s</p>
<p>just recalculate your GPA using the standard method and see what you get. i think a lot of the schools will ask you to convert it</p>
<p>My undergrad institution didn’t do minuses or pluses- A, AB, B, BC, C, D or F. I think you could probably calculate it yourself or use the number off your transcript, whichever is higher. There is no way that this is consistent across all applicants.</p>
<p>Yeah the GPA on my transcript is HIGHER, so I could use that, right?</p>
<p>The GPA on my transcript doesn’t account for +/-'s, so I assume schools I apply for use the GPA on my transcript? (otherwise im screwed)</p>
<p>I just dont know if they’ll see it as using the bare minimum to get my GPA.</p>
<p>I don’t know how things are in finance, but undergrad GPA isn’t that huge of a deal in the biomedical sciences and as long as the admissions committee can see where you got your numbers from, there won’t be any accusations of impropriety.</p>
<p>Try calculating it both ways</p>
<p>If the difference isn’t significantly higher (+/- 0.1 or so), then I wouldn’t worry too much.</p>
<p>Report whatever is on your transcript.</p>
<p>If your self-reported GPA matches the GPA your school reports, then no one can challenge you. They can recalculate it, but they can’t challenge you. Now if you report something different than what your school reports, then you can be challenged. But don’t worry about it - they’ll recalculate however they want (probably based on their field) from your transcript. Your main goal with a self-reported GPA is not to lie.</p>
<p>Well, My GPA is a 3.4 on my transcpript, and I calculated it as a 3.2 with the +/- system.</p>
<p>then yea like burdell said put 3.4 unless they tell you to calculate with the standard method</p>
<p>do a lot of schools recalculate your gpa with the +/- or do they most often just take what they see on the transcript?</p>
<p>Admissions Committees don’t worry about a GPA (unless it’s very low). What they do is look at specific grades in classes that will impact the grad program.</p>
<p>^^^if they even do that, I discovered at one of my interviews that the admission committee didn’t know my gpa or have the application form/transcripts where it was written.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of programs you are applying to, but 3.5 would be significantly below average in some programs.</p>
<p>Nah. I knew a guy with a 2.7 that got into a top 3 PhD program in his field. His GPA was low but he had two pubs as first author as an undergrad.</p>
<p>A 3.5 isn’t low. Whoever that character is who posted that is delusional.</p>
<p>belevitt- you said GPA isnt important for biomedical admissions?</p>
<p>Can you elaborate further? I just got a B- in a microbiology lab class (not because it was hard, but b/c I didn’t do any of the useless busywork)</p>
<p>From what I gather, it is a means of exclusion, not inclusion, like the GRE. Provided it is over a certain threshold, they don’t seem to care how high it is.</p>
<p>I’m here to let you know that you should be fine… I will graduate in May with around a 3.55, and I have been accepted to MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and UCSF (among other schools…), which are top 5 programs in what I want to do. At least for me, I could argue one of the reasons I didn’t do as well was because I decided to spend my time in the lab doing research, and thus got two first-author papers out (one of which was published in Nature).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it - I’ve heard from faculty on the admissions committee at top schools that as long as your GPA is high enough i.e around 3.5, other things start to matter more.</p>