anonymouspanda Posted December 22, 2019 Report Share Posted December 22, 2019 Is GPA calculated the same way for uAlberta and uCalgary? I thought it was but the GPAs listed on my two MD apps are different. I got them to verify it for uAlberta as I was worried it is incorrect since they calculated it to be 0.03 points higher than the gpa I inputted for my uCalgary app. Any insights on why there is a discrepancy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justdoingmybest Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) They're a fair bit different. U of A takes all 4 years of your undergrad into account and drops your worst year if you have 4 full-time years from Sept-Apr. They will exclude any grade that isn't part of a full-time semester (18 credits from Sept-Apr or 12 credits in spring/summer) but otherwise include everything. Calgary on the other hand takes everything except for spring/summer terms into account, regardless of how many courses you have taken in spring/summer. They also can drop your worst year from the calc, but they will drop the year if you have 2 full-time years, not 4. If you took 4 full-time semesters Sept-Apr as a lot of people do, the GPA's should be the same. If you did a fair bit of summer work, they will likely be different and even substantially so. For example, if your undergrad was a co-op program, you might miss out on the requirement to have 4 full-time Sept-Apr terms at U of A which would invalidate you from having a year dropped there. Likewise, if a lot of your best semesters were taken in the summer, your Calgary GPA would take a hit since they don't include any summer work. Hope this helps! Edited January 27, 2020 by burneraccount909 Had a typo that caused the information in the post to be wrong. Braindrain and anonymouspanda 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymouspanda Posted December 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Thank you! This does help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.