<p>quick question: does amcas remove all plus/minus notations from the transcript?</p>
<p>Quick answer- NO. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, they cant. At some schools a B+ = 3.5 and other its a 3.33, so they need to include it to accurately calculate the GPA.</p>
<p>They only do that for an A+, the highest value you can receive for a grade in AMCAS is 4.0.</p>
<p>They don’t remove the +/- designations, but they do re-calculate. I think that a B+ is a 3.3 (and a C+ would be a 2.3 and so on and so forth) under their system and that an A- is a 3.7 (and a B- is a 2.7, etc). They do that so that an A- from one school means the same thing as it does from another school just like an A is the same number of GPA points at every school. It avoids situations like ASMAJ mentioned where at one school a B+ is a 3.5 and at another it’s a 3.33.</p>
<p>But no, they don’t take the plus/minus notations off of your actual letter grade.</p>
<p>They didn’t recalculate for the people from my school. I thought they would but they kept B+ =3.5. I think its dependent on the grading system your school uses but I dont know for a fact.</p>
<p>That seems unlikely, ASMAJ, given that their stated conversions are available online. On <a href=“http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf</a>, page 3, a B+ is a 3.3.</p>
<p>If you look at the chart, there are situations where AMCAS will award a 3.5 for a B+/AB or whatever. But for most grading systems, a B+ will be assigned a 3.3 by AMCAS.</p>
<p>Yeah, they used the AB halfstep thing for my school.</p>
<p>Right, they take into account what grading system is used by the home institution. From what I understand, most people who see changes from their institution’s calculation of their GPA do so because of A+s that become 4.0s or grades that didn’t transfer being included.</p>