GPA calculation for graduate medicine

[redemption_2010]

hey. just curious how they calculate this.  my friend is applying for med in 2012, after completing 3 yrs bacehlor of biomed course from (2009, 2010, 2011) however when he does his application in mid 2011, say june, his gpa will aready be ranked and weighted with his gamsat mark. shouldnt they wait till the end of the year say december till he has completed his bacehlors to calculate his gpa?

[Russ]

No, because if they waited until the end of December then they would have to rank, interview, rerank and make offers before the end of January. When he fills in his application his first two years will be included. Some universities require you to deliver your results for the 1st semester of your third year (because they're usually not released until after applications close). What this means, is that if you apply to graduate medicine straight after finishing your Bachelor degree you will be judged only on 2 years of GPA.

Obviously if you take a year off etc., you'll be judged on your entire course GPA.

[redemption_2010]

No, because if they waited until the end of December then they would have to rank, interview, rerank and make offers before the end of January. When he fills in his application his first two years will be included. Some universities require you to deliver your results for the 1st semester of your third year (because they're usually not released until after applications close). What this means, is that if you apply to graduate medicine straight after finishing your Bachelor degree you will be judged only on 2 years of GPA.

Obviously if you take a year off etc., you'll be judged on your entire course GPA.

i heard they make some late offers too like in feb will they "re update" my gpa mark from the completed 3yrd year results?

[Russ]

Only if you deliver them to them I guess. If you apply in June and they offer you a place late (after others reject etc.) then they don't have any more information than they previously had.

[redemption_2010]

i have another question, you cleared up my last question really well so heres one.
 
I failed a few subjects in my first year, do they count, i heard they count as 0, so will that be considered and bring my average down?
 
like say hypothetically i did 2 subjects in my first year and got say 80 (H1) and 49 (fail) will this count as (7 + 0)/2 = 3.5 give me a gpa of 3.5 or fail not count and give me a 7 gpa average as average of my passed subjects was 7.

[redemption_2010]

oh my bad my failed subject was a mark of 45 i got, thats not 0 i looked at gpa scale thats a mark of 3.5.

[Russ]

Unfortunately, yes, every subject you've done in the last three years (full time) must be included. If you did a second degree (or honours year) after your current degree then they would be replaced with more recent subjects.

So if you failed half your 1st year subjects and got H1s in the other half, you would have a GPA of 3.5 for that year.

Out of interest are you at UoM biomed?

[redemption_2010]

oh another question, so effectively only my first 2 years will be calculated in my GPA.

SO my first year sbjects and second year subjects will weighted like this then

say my averge mark for first year suject was x1, and my average mark for 2nd year was x2.

then in calculating my average gpa, since 2nd year gpa is twice as weighted as 1st year, it would be (2*x2 + x1)/2 right?

[Russ]

Yeah pretty much, but an easier way to do it is just to calculate each year individually then weight them appropriately.

eg: (6.5+7+5+5+6.0+6.5+7+5)/8 and then multiply by whatever year it is. Makes it easier, don't have to type in a whole lot of brackets for weightings

[redemption_2010]

Yeah pretty much, but an easier way to do it is just to calculate each year individually then weight them appropriately.

eg: (6.5+7+5+5+6.0+6.5+7+5)/8 and then multiply by whatever year it is. Makes it easier, don't have to type in a whole lot of brackets for weightings

k. thanks man ur a legend.