Guest toothy1985 Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 Hi, I am just wondering what is a 3.69? is it a B+ or A? or what percent range... no one is appearantly able to answer this question at the med school admissions offices i called ( icalled about 8 of them across canada) Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leviathan Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 GPAs are weighted averages of your letter grades, so you can't just convert it back. That said, a 3.69 would be approximately a B+/A- average, because an A- is assigned a 3.7 grade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avenir001 Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 Hey toothy, There are different GPA systems and conversion scales, but I'm from UBC and here 80% is an A-, which translates into OMSAS 3.70...so I guess 3.69 would be just below an A- (ie B+). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blinknoodle Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 www.ouac.on.ca/omsas/pdf/c_omsas_b.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uwkin Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Remember, the key is to convert each course to GPA first and then average the GPA's together to give you your overall GPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheShrink Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Really? So we convert each of our marks into the GPA scale on the chart and then add them all and divide by our total courses ( 4.oo x # courses) to find our gpa for med school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uwkin Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 yep, thats exactly it. So for example: 87 = 3.9 82 = 3.7 77 = 3.3 92 = 4.0 74 = 3.0 3.9+3.7+3.3+4.0+3.0 = 17.9 17.9/5 courses = 3.58 That was the correct way. The incorrect (although often more comforting) way is to find the percentage average and then convert like so The average for those marks is 82.4, and when converted it comes out to 3.7 (80-84 range) 3.7 seems much better than 3.58, but sadly its not correct. You can see how this method ensures that those with a solid GPA have done well in most or all of their course, so they are well balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest celeria Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 but what if a class is only worth 2 credits instead of the usual 3? anyone have to deal with this issue?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Law Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 I think the above example was for 5 1.0 courses... if you have half courses (0.5 credits) they're counted once. Each 1.0 credit course is counted two times. This is then divided by 10. I think that's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whocares123 Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Yea that looks about right. THe GPA system is similar to the MCAT system in that regard - scaled to be able to differentiate between the best of the best. On the GPA system, one very low mark in a course can sink the GPA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Law Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Yeah, whereas if you look at averages a low mark can be offset by some really high marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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