 I know you guys are thinking with that being said like okay so can I retake these classes and if I retake them do they like change the do they to replace the the bad grades or the poor grades that I had on my previous transcripts and the answer is what's up you guys so down and welcome back to my channel so I am really excited because I've been getting these questions asked to me a lot and I love it when you guys ask me questions because it helps feed the channel with more content and I get to feel like I'm helping you all so please if you haven't already done so or if something pops in your mind go ahead and leave a comment in my comment section right now on a question that you may have about anything PA school related or PA related and I will do my best to answer it so I've been doing all these consultation sessions and I've been coming up with some questions that you guys are consistently asking me and it's about your GPA and your grades and retaking classes and does it even really matter so that's what we're going to be talking about today so knowing your GPA both science and cumulative GPA is like knowing your social security number you have to know that thing like the back of your hand so it helps you understand what you're able to do like your social security number helps you understand like where you can go in life like what kind of credit you might be able to get or you know I don't I don't know like they use their social security number for everything and so it's the same thing with the GPA when you are applying at PA school you need to know like hey am I even eligible to get into this particular program do I meet the minimum GPA requirement so knowing both your cumulative and science GPA is imperative to your application but that being said I know that a lot of you are you know coming to this career as like a second career or you may have gone through like undergrad a little bit like a while ago and then it's like you didn't do the best in your undergrad but post grad like maybe you had like a graduate work or something like that that you did and you've done a whole lot better and Caspa is asking for not only your grad school transcripts but also your undergraduate transcripts and for me I needed to also present my high school transcripts because I took AP classes that were you know for college credits so they needed to see all of that to calculate my overall GPA and that can be really scary and really like just like what the freak I mean I've gone to school I didn't do the best in my freshman and sophomore year why do you need those transcripts from like my community college that I went to like six years ago or whatever the case may be well they do and so you have to actually provide them with that now I know you guys are thinking with that being said like okay so can I retake these classes and if I retake them do they like change the do they to replace the bad grades or the poor grades that I had on my previous transcripts and the answer is no so I wanted to make this very very clear for you because this came up a lot in my sessions CASPA does not replace your grades now it is up to the school that you're applying to to replace those grades for you should they choose so they might be calculating a prerequisite GPA which some PA schools actually do do and therefore what will happen is they will just choose your either most recent or your best grade for that particular course and calculate your overall prerequisite GPA so it is like it's not like a bad thing you know like you should do it I know like you might be weighing your options like well should I really do this I mean if it's not replacing it like why what's the point in me actually like doing this and taking this course over again so the point is is that if your school is actually creating a prerequisite GPA for you and then do it you know it's important do it because this will boost your prerequisite and maybe they look more highly on the prerequisite GPA than they do the overall or science GPA and so those are things you have to take into consideration but what I want you to understand with CASPA is when you are giving them all of your transcripts all of the coursework that you've ever done in your life even if you went to like one community college a long time ago and you took only one course from that school you still have to get that transcript as well because they make you like sign something that says yes I've got I've sent you all my transcripts and everything is true and honest to my best knowledge and they need all of that to calculate your overall GPA so when they're doing that they're just taking an average so you have an A in one course in that course like let's say biology that you took years ago and then you retook you had a C in it and then you retook and you got an A now they're gonna like marry the two together get an average and you'll come out to likely be a B depending on how high your A was like was it an A plus or an A minus whatever the case maybe you might have like a B B plus B minus so that is how they do it and it's important for you to understand that because that will help you calculate your own GPA as well so when you're going to think about hey it's time for me to apply I want to see what schools I can apply to it is important for you to try to calculate your science GPA and your overall GPA yourself prior to actually applying through CASPA and have them calculate it for you because you want to know okay I can apply to these schools okay so hopefully this is helpful for you guys I really wanted to share that with you because it's been coming up a lot please like this video subscribe um hit me and leave me a comment because it helps my youtube channel out a lot thank you guys so much for joining mom on this journey hit me up at adana the pa on instagram thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time bye