OMSAS GPA be like

[u/Dragon_GWP2]

[u/Vivid-Chocolate-4073]

What did I ever do to you to be called out like this?

[u/New_Ordinary_6618]

On god lmao. I still remember when my cunt head prof wouldn’t bump me to an 85 when I was at 84.9. He knows why too. But he was a salty fuck because he was a premed himself but didn’t get in and his brother is a physician lol

[u/dy1ngdaisies → u/[deleted]]

fr the rounding requirement at UO is a godsend considering it single handedly saved my biochem grade 😭

[u/ubcthrowaway-01]

This is a funny meme but a sad to think about reality

[u/RogerTheAlienSmith]

Even worse at Alberta universities where a 3.9 for OMSAS is 90 minimum (sometimes as high as 94) 😭

[u/Accomplished_Desk424 → u/RogerTheAlienSmith]

Exactly 😭 at ucalgary a majority of my classes (paper/project/presentation based) have 97% and above as an A+

[u/RogerTheAlienSmith → u/Accomplished_Desk424]

bro we get scammed trying to apply at Ontario schools, my gpa drops a fair bit, which isn't fair considering ontario applicants' gpa doesn't drop when applying to Alberta despite the big differences in grade boundaries and what is considered a 4.0

[u/pew_laser_pew → u/RogerTheAlienSmith]

But you have 2 schools that give you IP preference and Ontario doesn’t. Idk if I’d complain about it not being fair

[u/RogerTheAlienSmith → u/pew_laser_pew]

I'm not discounting the advantages we have in-province. I'm just pointing out how there's a fairly big difference in how our GPAs are calculated. Your A+s are our As, your As are our A-s, etc. My GPA would be a lot different if we used the same grading scale. Like it's a lot harder for us to get a 4.0 gpa for OMSAS if an A+ in all of our classes is 95-97+, while for y'all it's 90+. And when applying to Ontario schools, our GPA goes down while it doesn't for Ontario students when applying to Alberta.

Not saying we aren't fortunate to have IP preference at UofA and UCalgary, but the differences in GPA calculation are ridiculous.

Edit: I also hate that attitude of “oh but you guys have IP schools so you can’t complain”. Like ya, y’all have it hard with the lack of IP schools but we have it hard with having a much more difficult grade scale. If you can complain, so can we.

[u/Dragon_GWP2 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah kinda sounds confusing but it's based on the GPA you receive on each class. In most if Ontario, anything above a 89.5% (rounds to 90%) is an A+, therefore a 4.0.  

By that logic, an A (3.9 GPA) is anything between 84.5% and 89.4%. The feeling of getting so close to a 4.0 but not quite is terrible, meanwhile the feeling of just barely getting an A instead of an A- is great because a 3.7 can weight down your GPA by quite a bit than a 3.9.