mikkey Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 Hey I was wondering if you entered all your CEGEP grades on the AMCAS, ie not just the ones credited by your university. If so, how do these grades affect your GPA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippie Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 HI Mikkey, I am a quebecer but since had most of my education overseas, can't be of much help...Anyways to be a bit useful here, write aamc they usually reply within one day and are pretty useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 You should be able to find the information in the 2008 AMCAS help booklet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikkey Posted May 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Hey I didn't find the info, so I called the AMCAS line, where I was promptly told that all post secondary grades must be submitted and then the line was cut. Great service. The major problem with this is that my grades are very average (70-84%) because I attended a very competitive CEGEP (college) but the conversion used in Quebec takes this fact into account. Hence they calculate your difference to the average of your class mixed in with the strength of the students attending the school and this gives me a pretty good score. However, this score is not taken into account anywhere outside of Quebec: only the raw grades count, and so this will drastically lower my GPA. Any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMmd Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 i think only prereqs are used from cegep, so i.e. orgo and whatnot... i dont think they will drastically lower your gpa tho. its only a few courses... let us know if you get more info from aamc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikkey Posted May 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Hey They told me that I had to enter all the courses that were on the transcript and that they would all be used to calculate the GPA. I thought that they would only count credited courses, but it seems that they don't... A solution that I thought could work would be to write them off as AP credits, and then you only enter the credited courses, cause they seriously won't make you enter all you high school stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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