Use this GPA calculator to quickly compute your GPA from course grades and credit hours, right in your browser.
Σ(grade × credits) ÷ Σ credits. Add rows for additional courses or semesters to extend the calculation into a cumulative figure across your transcript. Nothing is uploaded — everything runs locally in your browser.Grade Point Average is the single number that follows you through high school, college applications, scholarship boards, graduate-school admissions, and many first-job recruiting screens. It compresses every grade you've ever received into one decimal, which makes it brutally efficient for institutions to compare candidates but also brutally unforgiving — a single C in a 4-credit course early in your transcript can drag a 4.0 down to 3.78 and take semesters to recover. Running the math yourself before semester end (or before adding a credit-heavy course) is the simplest way to make decisions you won't regret.
| Letter | Grade Points | Typical Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 4.0 | 97–100 |
| A | 4.0 | 93–96 |
| A− | 3.7 | 90–92 |
| B+ | 3.3 | 87–89 |
| B | 3.0 | 83–86 |
| B− | 2.7 | 80–82 |
| C+ | 2.3 | 77–79 |
| C | 2.0 | 73–76 |
| C− | 1.7 | 70–72 |
| D+ | 1.3 | 67–69 |
| D | 1.0 | 63–66 |
| D− | 0.7 | 60–62 |
| F | 0.0 | Below 60 |
A+ is treated as 4.0 at most schools — it gives you bragging rights on a transcript but no GPA bump. A handful of institutions (notably some at the Ivy+ tier) use a 4.33 scale where A+ counts as 4.3; check your registrar's policy if it matters. Plus/minus grading is not universal: schools like Brown, Evergreen, MIT (in its 5.0 system), and many community colleges don't issue minus grades at all, which compresses the scale and tends to slightly raise reported GPAs.
| US 4.0 | US Letter | UK Honours | European 1–5 (Germany) | India CGPA / 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7–4.0 | A− to A+ | First-Class (70%+) | 1.0–1.5 | 8.5–10 |
| 3.3–3.7 | B+ to A− | Upper Second (2:1, 60–69%) | 1.5–2.5 | 7.5–8.5 |
| 2.7–3.3 | B− to B+ | Lower Second (2:2, 50–59%) | 2.5–3.5 | 6.5–7.5 |
| 2.0–2.7 | C to B− | Third-Class (40–49%) | 3.5–4.0 | 5.5–6.5 |
| Below 2.0 | D / F | Fail | 4.0–5.0 | Below 5.5 |
These mappings are approximations only. Official conversions for US admissions, employment, or licensure are usually done by WES (World Education Services) or a similar NACES-member credential evaluator, which weighs your institution's grading distribution, recognition status, and country-specific norms — not just a flat lookup. WES course-by-course reports start around USD $186 and take about seven business days.
In practice, most selective US colleges look at both. They use unweighted GPA as the raw academic benchmark (an A is an A) and weighted GPA as a signal of course rigor (did you take AP Calc or regular Calc?). On the Common App, your school sends a transcript with its own GPA in its own format; the application also asks you to self-report. Several large state systems — including the University of California — recalculate your GPA themselves using their own rules (UC drops freshman grades and caps the honors bonus at 8 semesters), which is why "my GPA" can be three different numbers depending on the audience.
The 4.0 scale is the US college default — A = 4.0, A+ also = 4.0 at most institutions. The 4.33 scale treats A+ as 4.3 and is used by some Ivy-tier and Canadian universities, which lets students with perfect transcripts show above a flat 4.0. The 5.0 scale is a weighted high-school scale where AP, IB, and dual-enrollment classes can earn 5.0 for an A (instead of the unweighted 4.0). The same letter grade therefore produces three different GPAs depending on the scale — a straight-A high schooler in regular classes is 4.0 on every scale, but in all-AP classes they're 4.0 unweighted, 5.0 weighted, or somewhere in between under a +0.5 honors / +1.0 AP system.
No. Schools like Brown, MIT, Caltech (limited), and many community colleges don't issue minus grades, and some institutions don't issue pluses either. When a school omits plus/minus grading entirely, A = 4.0 and B = 3.0 — there's no 3.7 or 3.3 in between, which compresses the distribution and tends to raise the average. Two students with identical transcripts can end up with different reported GPAs simply because their institutions use different grading granularity, which is one reason admissions readers also pay attention to class rank and course rigor rather than the GPA number alone.
It depends on the school. Most US undergraduate institutions allow a grade replacement policy in which the new grade replaces the old in the GPA calculation (often with restrictions: you may need to retake at the same school, only the first failure may qualify, and the original grade typically still appears on the transcript with a note). Some schools instead average the two grades, which improves the GPA less. Crucially, AMCAS (medical school applications) and LSAC (law school) recalculate from raw grades and count both attempts, so a retake helps your school GPA more than your application GPA. Always read your registrar's retake policy and your target graduate-program's transcript-evaluation rules.
A plain W does not affect your GPA — it carries zero grade points and zero credit hours, so it drops out of the weighted average entirely. A WF (withdrawal-failing), assigned at some schools when a student withdraws after a deadline while doing poorly, does count as an F (0.0). Repeated Ws are not GPA hits but they are red flags for graduate-school readers and they can affect financial aid: the federal Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) rules require students to complete a certain percentage of attempted credits, and Ws count as attempted-but-not-completed. The first one or two Ws on a transcript rarely matter; a pattern of five or six often does.
Pass/fail (P/F) and satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U) courses are typically excluded from GPA — a P or S earns credit toward graduation but no grade points, and an F or U usually earns no credit (some institutions count an F from a P/F course as 0.0 in the GPA, so check). Most undergraduate programs cap the number of P/F units that count toward a degree and forbid P/F in major coursework. During the COVID-19 emergency in 2020, many universities expanded P/F options, and most graduate programs and professional schools agreed to accept P grades from that period without prejudice — but outside that emergency context, taking required pre-med coursework P/F generally hurts your application.
For unofficial estimates, use the rough equivalences above and the calculator. For anything official — visa applications, US graduate-school admissions, professional licensure — universities require a course-by-course credential evaluation from a NACES-member service. WES (World Education Services) is the most widely accepted; ECE, SpanTran, and IEE are alternatives. The evaluator considers your country's grading distribution, your institution's recognition status, and per-course difficulty before assigning a 4.0-scale GPA, which is why their number can differ from a flat lookup table. Plan for $150–$300 in fees and one to four weeks of turnaround depending on the option.
Latin honors thresholds vary by school, but the typical US private-college pattern is roughly cum laude ≥ 3.5, magna cum laude ≥ 3.7, and summa cum laude ≥ 3.9 — with the highest tier often further restricted to the top 1–5% of the graduating class. Some schools (USC, NYU, Purdue) publish fixed GPA cutoffs; others (Harvard, Princeton historically) use percentile rank instead of an absolute number; some require a minimum number of letter-graded credits before you're eligible at all. Departmental "honors in the major" or "with distinction" designations are separate from Latin honors and have their own rules — often involving a thesis or capstone in addition to a GPA floor.
No. The GPA calculator runs entirely in client-side JavaScript — your grades, credit hours, and course names are never sent to xconvert servers and never logged. The page works offline once it has loaded, which is also why the result updates instantly as you type. Nothing about your academic record is stored, transmitted, or tied to your identity.