increasing gpa's cause we're canadian??

[Guest mmk]

I've heard that a lot of American Schools add a certain amount on to Canadian applicants gpa because Canadian schools are harder. Is this true??

thanks

Mmk

[Guest brandonite]

I have never heard of that... It is harder to get a 90% in a class in Canada than it is in the US, but then again, you need a 90% in the US generally to get an A- in a class. I don't think that a lot of schools make significant alterations to the GPAs that they see. That becomes very subjective...

[Guest Chieka101]

Yes, it's wonderfully true. My GPA rose .12 from OMSAS to AMCAS. I am definitely not complaining.

 

C.

[Guest cheech10]

It's not that they add to your GPA, but the AMCAS scale is more generous to us than the OMSAS scale, so your GPA for the US will definitely be higher.

[Guest Chieka101]

Agreed, Cheech. An 80% from say, UWO is an A on the AMCAS scale. An A is a 4.0 on the scale.

 

C.

[Guest jk995]

Hi,

What scale are you guys using to convert canadian averages to amcas gpas (ie. for U of Toronto).

 

thanks

Jen

[Guest cheech10]

I think you use letter grades.

A = 4

A- = 3.7

B+ = 3.3

B = 3

B- = 2.7

C+ = 2.3

C = 2

C- = 1.7

D+ = 1.3

D = 1.0

D- = .7

[Guest jk995]

okay, my problem was that I was getting different information from different sites:

 

on the aamc website (www.aamc.org/students/amc...nbook.pdf) p.49 it gives a similar scheme to what you say, although I am not sure if university of toronto is "ff" "gg"....

 

Then on this other website www.caribbeanmedicine.com/ (under the GPA and MCAT section of that page) it lists a completely different conversion scheme.

 

Not sure which is correct.

 

Thanks and Happy New Year

[Guest jk995]

oops that previous link got cut

 

http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2003instructionbook.pdf

 

(see p.49)

[Guest peachy]

Yeah, the information provided by AMCAS is incredibly unclear for Canadian schools. For my school, I basically had no idea what things would convert to until AMCAS actually went through my application and gave me an official conversion a few weeks after it was submitted. But it was way better than I thought it would be, so it's all good.

[Guest BrainDrain]

If you don't know which scale to use, just use the one that gives YOU to best GPA conversion. Let AMCAS take care of the rest.

 

BrainDrain