<p>Thanks for your post, jct.</p>
<p>Serchingon, you wrote</p>
<p><strong><em>"However, contrary to what some people have implied, there is no "numerical factoring" to compensate for a low GPA from a tough undergraduate program. It is not done. The subjective factor can not be calculated and it is a tremendous detriment to some applicants, especially with all other factors being roughly equal.
That is what micromom was asking and that is to what I am replying to."</em></strong>*</p>
<p>I just want to clarify that I wasn't asking about a "numerical factoring" (example: will a Chicago GPA be mutiplied by some factor, say 1.1, and a Podunk U GPA be multiplied by another factor, say 1.01?). No, that was not what I was speculating about. Instead, I was wondering if AMCAS disregards pluses and minuses in its processing of grades. I brought this up because a parent on the CC Parent Forum, some time ago, had asked about this. A different poster had responded that A minuses might be treated as As (which would be significant when evaluating Chicago GPAs since it gives out minuses and pluses), However, having read a few posts about the AMCAS methodology in the CC pre-med board this morning, it looks like AMCAS does not convert an A minus to an A, a B minus to a B and so on. However, one poster who had gone through the AMCAS process was sure that A pluses were treated as plain old As (much to his dissapointment).</p>