Calculate a term or cumulative GPA on a weighted or unweighted scale, with honors and AP weighting, pass/fail exclusion, a prior transcript, and target planning.
Change the inputs that matter to your decision. Optional assumptions stay collapsed until you need them.
Your registrar decides these. Check the policy rather than assuming the default.
Add what is already on the transcript to get a cumulative GPA rather than a term GPA.
Name a goal and see the GPA the next block of credits has to earn.
45.3 quality points across 13 graded credits.
Switch on the weighted transcript if your school reports honors and AP courses above a 4.0. Add your prior cumulative record for a transcript GPA rather than a term GPA.
| Course 1 | 12.0 pointsA = 4.0 × 3 credits |
|---|---|
| Course 2 | 13.2 pointsB+ = 3.3 × 4 credits |
| Course 3 | 11.1 pointsA− = 3.7 × 3 credits |
| Course 4 | 9.0 pointsB = 3.0 × 3 credits |
| Term GPA | 3.4845.3 quality points ÷ 13.0 graded credits |
Grade point values, rounding, repeat-course policy, and whether a transcript is weighted at all are set by your institution. This follows the most common US conventions; your registrar's published policy is the authority on your record.
Practical notes about the inputs, assumptions, and result.
On an unweighted transcript an A is 4.0 whatever the course. A weighted transcript adds a bonus for harder courses — commonly 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP or IB — so a B in an AP class can be worth as much as an A in a regular one. Both appear on many US high school transcripts, and most colleges recalculate from the course list on their own scale regardless.
No. A weighting bonus applies to passing grades only, so an F is worth zero whatever the course was. Adding a bonus to a zero would reward taking a harder class and failing it.
They do not. A pass/fail or audited course earns credit toward graduation but carries no grade points and no GPA credits, so it changes neither the numerator nor the denominator. The credits are still reported here so you can see them, just outside the GPA.
By quality points, not by averaging two GPAs. A 3.0 across 48 credits carries 144 quality points; add a 4.0 across 12 credits and you have 192 across 60, which is a 3.20. Averaging 3.0 and 4.0 would give 3.50 and be badly wrong whenever the credit loads differ.
It solves for the GPA the credits you have left must earn to reach a cumulative goal. Where that number is above the top of the scale, it says so plainly and reports the best cumulative GPA still reachable instead of only telling you the goal has failed.
It depends on the institution. Many cap the scale at 4.0 so an A+ and an A are identical; others award 4.3. It is a setting here because getting it wrong shifts a strong transcript by a tenth of a point or more. Check your registrar's published policy.
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