Confused About The GPA's

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Hi, I was trying to get into the nursing clinicals for the Spring but was not able. I was told that I had two different GPA's, one for nursing and I guess one for regular classes. I thought that your grade point average was for all of your classes combined and then averaged out. This was really confusing to me, can someone please explain what they are talking about because a few people I know went through the same thing

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Specializes in ICU.

The gpa you are refering two (all classes) is your cumulative gpa. It sounds like your school is seperating the two for evaluation. They can count only the classes that they want to and find the gpa for those combined.

I know for the school I am applying to, they only consider your nursing pre-req gpa, not cumulative gpa, for the application process. So any classes taken to get to Math 1050 or an art class you might have taken is not considered, just the ones they choose.

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Our school has two GPA's, one for cumulative and includes ALL the classes you take. The other is your "program" GPA.

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