silverlinden Posted September 3, 2020 Report Share Posted September 3, 2020 Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone received (or know someone who received) an interview on the basis of a 2nd undergraduate degree? I know we can't know for sure since admissions doesn't reveal this information, but it would be great to know if anyone received an interview with a competitive 2nd degree gpa and a noncompetitive 1st degree gpa. The gpa for my second degree is substantially higher than my first and I was going to outline the reasons for this in the academic explanations essay. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmchefpremed Posted September 3, 2020 Report Share Posted September 3, 2020 I did get an interview with a second degree this past cycle. As you mentioned there is no way to know for sure if that's all they took into account. I did right an e=academic explanation essay requesting consideration to use second degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg4697 Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 @pharmchefpremed do you mind me asking what reasons you gave in your academic explanation essay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlinden Posted September 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 22 hours ago, pharmchefpremed said: I did get an interview with a second degree this past cycle. As you mentioned there is no way to know for sure if that's all they took into account. I did right an e=academic explanation essay requesting consideration to use second degree. That's great to hear! Was there a large difference between your first and second degree gpa in terms of being competitive for you applicant pool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmchefpremed Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 1 hour ago, silverlinden said: That's great to hear! Was there a large difference between your first and second degree gpa in terms of being competitive for you applicant pool? The second degree was a pharmacy degree from the US and OMSAS would not give a GPA conversion so i am not sure whether it was being considered at all. That was my main reason for writing the explanation. I am not sure what GPA they eventually assigned to the second as i also requested weighting GPA (since the credits get very skewed with clinical rotations). The first degree was a 3.8. 15 hours ago, sg4697 said: @pharmchefpremed do you mind me asking what reasons you gave in your academic explanation essay? I am non-trad so the second degree wasnt necessarily done to help improve the first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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