AMB Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Does anyone know what's the converstion scale for UoOttawa grades? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethToronto Posted August 17, 2007 Report Share Posted August 17, 2007 Hey...I just got verified and it seems they did NOT use the Queen's scale! I'm not sure why or how this happened, but for Queen's students: 4.0 = 87-100% (A) 3.7 = 80-86% (A-) 3.3 = 75-79% ( Definitely not what I was expecting after reading this thread. I think there is definitely some errors with the conversion #s posted in this thread. The official ones are provided by AMCAS: http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf Check out the box at the bottom for Canadian universities. No such luck for UWO/Queen's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfyfan Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Does anyone know what's the converstion scale for UoOttawa grades?Thanks Same question. Anyone know? Or are all Canadian schools considered the same using the link ^? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgmed23 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 What is UBC's conversion. UBC really screws with you for not using a GPA system. The courses aren't even scaled on the bell curve....what you score is what you get regardless of whether how the whole class does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I thought that most schools don't use a GPA system. You get a percent mark, which is an estimate of how well you did and does not reflect the rest of the class. When I was calculating my Queen's GPA I got the same numbers that AMCAS did. I used that giant conversion chart, but different school use different conversions (I think it's dependent on the letter grade you get. Queen's only has As or Bs, no pluses or minuses). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lll Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 when vcal.GPA,do v multiply by 2 for full credits .....or does it depend on number of hrs ... ________ iolite vaporizer review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unique135 Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 Hi, I want to make sure if the conversion I used from AMCAS conversion table is the right one for the ryerson university. AMCAS conversion table http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf Ryerson GPA Table: http://www.ryerson.ca/essr/gpacal.htm AMCAS GPA A+ 90-100 4.0 A 85-89 4.0 A- 80-84 3.7 B+ 77-79 3.3 B 73-76 3.0 B- 70-72 2.7 C+ 67-69 2.3 C 63-66 2.0 C- 60-62 1.7 D+ 57-59 1.3 D 53-56 1.0 D- 50-52 0.7 F 0-49 0.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Ok a friend of mine at queen's just submitted letters in for her marks and got it converted back to a percentage that showed on the transcript..anyone else had that phenomenon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Ok a friend of mine at queen's just submitted letters in for her marks and got it converted back to a percentage that showed on the transcript..anyone else had that phenomenon? Not I. I submitted letters and they left all my marks as letters. What program is she in at Queen's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Not I. I submitted letters and they left all my marks as letters. What program is she in at Queen's? Life sciences, we have both letter grades and %s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 That is weird. I'm in LifeSci as well and I put in later grades and they kept them. Same for my other friend. I know someone in Engineering who ended up having percentages + my other friend started off putting in percentages (but with her 4.0 GPA it really didn't matter). AMCAS is just so inconsistent with the way they do things. You can always call them and ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a41 Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Yeah AMCAS is stupid. I have percentages because I'm in engineering, but one of our first year classes is given a letter grade (A, B, C or whatever). My A got converted to a Pass. And they wouldn't change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkram Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Yeah AMCAS is stupid. I have percentages because I'm in engineering, but one of our first year classes is given a letter grade (A, B, C or whatever). My A got converted to a Pass. And they wouldn't change it. That's just so f*cked up. An A is soo different from a pass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 hmm she had a fair bit of pass fails on her transcript, maybe that's why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 hmm she had a fair bit of pass fails on her transcript, maybe that's why? Could be...I talked to my two medschool friends, and they both had the same situation as me (letter grades were kept from their Queen's transcripts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Yeah AMCAS is stupid. I have percentages because I'm in engineering, but one of our first year classes is given a letter grade (A, B, C or whatever). My A got converted to a Pass. And they wouldn't change it. And that just doesn't even make sense...A is definitely not just a pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladam Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 I'm a Queen's Life Sciences student and I was just verified today...I entered in my letter grades from my transcript but they changed them to the %'s and converted from there. here's the scale that was used for me: 87-100 = A = 4.0 80-86 = A- = 3.7 75-79 = B+ = 3.3 70-74 = B = 3.0 65-69 = B- = 2.7 60-64 = C+ = 2.3 55-59 = C = 2.0 50-54 = C- = 1.7 Also...kinda annoying that pharmacology doesn't go into the BCPM GPA! There go five 4.0's I really could have used in that calculation...oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 I'm a Queen's Life Sciences student and I was just verified today...I entered in my letter grades from my transcript but they changed them to the %'s and converted from there. here's the scale that was used for me: 87-100 = A = 4.0 80-86 = A- = 3.7 75-79 = B+ = 3.3 70-74 = B = 3.0 65-69 = B- = 2.7 60-64 = C+ = 2.3 55-59 = C = 2.0 50-54 = C- = 1.7 Also...kinda annoying that pharmacology doesn't go into the BCPM GPA! There go five 4.0's I really could have used in that calculation...oh well. I have had 2 friends, one had it like u and the other got off with using their A's as 4.0s. I think ur right tho, that scale is probably the one is going to get used for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 I have had 2 friends, one had it like u and the other got off with using their A's as 4.0s. I think ur right tho, that scale is probably the one is going to get used for me I think it's so stupid. I don't understand why can't they just stick to using letter grades for people that have letter grades. In the end every percent does make a difference and it seems like people are being punished for having percentages entered for their GPA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladam Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 yeah it's kinda frustrating because if my letter grades had been converted my final calculation would have been considerably better...not much can be done about it though! i don't have the greatest GPA anyway so i'm just hoping my MCAT carries a little bit more weight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 yeah it's kinda frustrating because if my letter grades had been converted my final calculation would have been considerably better...not much can be done about it though! i don't have the greatest GPA anyway so i'm just hoping my MCAT carries a little bit more weight Different schools emphasize different aspects (some like MCAT, some like GPA) but from what I gather a lot like MCAT because its standardized and some schools favor a good VR score, others a BS and PS score. Different strokes for different folks, but the fact that there isnt a single paradigm of an ideal applicant makes it somewhat possible for different applicants to be competitive at different schools. Best of luck to you Bladam! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristan Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 What scale would they use for Trent University? There seems to be so many different ways to scale the grades??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 What scale would they use for Trent University?There seems to be so many different ways to scale the grades??? Depends on what you have on your transcript. Do you have letter grades or percentages or both (are there +/- for your letter grades?). The conversion scale from AMCAS will reflect your official Trent transcript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristan Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 I have numeric grades and some pass and fail for my clinical courses for nursing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 I just want to add that for Queen's it is in fact A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0, etc A lot of my friends ultimately had the letter grades that they initially put in changed to % values. However when you hit "print application" and you do a preview, you wil lsee all the marks that were A's on ur transcript are converted to As on the amcas scale. Therefore letter grade on qcard = amcas grade. From there, amcas grades of A,B,C are converted to 4.0,3.0,2.0 respectively. So the original scale posted by SONYVAIO is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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