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Originally Posted by TGentry

My child did well on the ACT (a 33, if I'm remembering correctly) but was barely in the top 25% of her high school class GPA-wise. UT Austin took a chance on her, and she is in the College of Natural Science on the pre-med track. As an incoming Junior, she has finished OChem and many of the tough weed-out classes.

I'm proud to say that she has earned all As with only 1, I think, A-. Public medical schools in TX disregard the plus and minus parts of grades, so she currently has a 4.0 for medical school application purposes.

I've very grateful that UT looked past her grades in high school and saw some potential to do well taking rigorous science classes.

It's great to hear she's doing so well - man time flies, I recall talking about her when she was a high schooler.


OChem I and OChem II at UT are the stuff of legend and nightmare. Congratulations to her!


As we've talked about before my son went to UTSW and my daughter is at Baylor Medical School now. IIRC both schools recalculated undergraduate GPA to include all college courses ever attempted.........so dual credit in HS counts, oddball summer school classes from brand-x school count etc. As you mentioned + and - don't matter only the letter grade.