<p>I've got a quick question and if anyone can answer it for me, I'd really appreciate it. I was just wondering if the med schools actually calculate your gpa themselves or if they accept the gpa officially stated in your transcript? I had to retake a class, but it didn't factor into my official gpa, but is still on the transcript. Would it adversely affect me still? Thank you=)</p>
<p>They calculate it themselves. Unless I'm mistaken, anything that appears on your transcript will be factored in.</p>
<p>(They don't actually calculate it themselves, the AAMC does so on your AMCAS. But the point is that they're not accepting your undergraduate institution's interpretation of it.)</p>
<p>i'm confused...so how different would your gpa be from the gpa they calculate?</p>
<p>Probably not very. If you transfer schools, they consider everything equally; if your school "weights" any classes, AMCAS will ignore that and unweight them; etc.</p>
<p>I did really badly the first time arounding a chem class so I repeated it and the school only looked at the grade I got the second time around to calculate my current gpa. Yea, but the fact that I repeated the class and my grade then is still on my transcript. I was just wondering then if the med schools accepted the gpa given to them by my school or if they went out, looked at the transcript and calculated my gpa(along with the repeat) themselves. Thank you=)</p>