Because of the standardization that occurs during verification, it is not uncommon to see GPA discrepancies between what your schools calculate and what VMCAS calculates. Discrepancies occur because:
- VMCAS does not recognize an individual school's policies for forgiveness, academic renewal, or grade replacement for repeated courses. VMCAS will verify based on how grades for repeated courses are reported on the official transcripts. All grades earned for repeated courses are factored into your VMCAS GPA.
- VMCAS's numeric grade values differ from an individual school's.
- VMCAS calculates all GPAs in semester hours. Courses that were completed in quarter hours are converted to semester hours. The conversion ratio is 1.0 quarter hour = 0.667 semester hours.
- VMCAS breaks down your GPA by academic year, not by college or university. Coursework completed at multiple schools for similar academic years get combined. For example, if you completed freshman coursework at College ABC and freshman coursework at College XYZ, VMCAS uses all of that coursework to calculate the GPA for your freshman academic year.