Can You Help Me Calculate This

[KizzieKae, CNA]

One of the nursing programs I am applying to have pre-req & co-pre-req:

Proof of completion of prerequisites. C or better and overall GPA of 2.5 or higher in prerequisite courses.

A&P I B
General Psychology B
Growth & Development; Life Span C 
Comp I B

Proof of completion of co-requisite. C or better and overall GPA of 2.5 or higher in prerequisite and co-requisite courses.

A&P II A
Microbiology A
 

What does co-requisite mean (please dumb it down to me. I tried googling; didn't understood it). And from the grades for those classes, could anyone tell me what my GPA would be? It is 3.23?

All help greatly appreciated.

[kayji, BSN]

Co-requisite usually means two classes that have to be taken at the same time (e.g. a lecture and lab). I don't know why they are using it for the A&P II and micro classes - it seems out of place.

To calculate your GPA you need your grade and how many credits each class was worth. We can't verify without the credit information, but you can easily calculate yourself: add up (class * credits), then divide by the total number of credits. If that's what you did to get 3.23, then it's right.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

There are a couple ways to figure out your GPA. One way is to multiply the value of the grade by the semester units of the class and divide the result by the total of the semester units.

So if you have two 3 unit courses and you earned an A and a B, that's (3x4) + (3x3) which equals (12+9) or 21. Divide that by (3+3) or 6 and you get a GPA of 3.5. The other way that is common is to simply add the grade value (4+3)=7 and divide by the number of courses. In this way you get 7/2 or again 3.5 GPA. What I got by doing this method for your courses (near as I could tell) is a 3.16 GPA. 

If your courses are of different unit values, then you very easily could end up with a different GPA calculation than what I arrived at.

Now on to the "corequisite" course thing. That's usually a course that either must be taken at the same time as another or it is a course that must be completed prior to the completion of a given point in a program but does not necessarily need to be completed prior to starting the program because if that were the case, it would be a "prerequisite" course. Not taking the corequisite course isn't an option. Another way to think about this is that when you enroll in a program, you must also complete some additional non-program coursework that is related somehow. If you manage to complete those additional courses and you enter said program, you don't have to take those additional courses again as you'd have already completed them.