College-View GPA
Your GPA the way colleges often recalculate it: weighted and unweighted, academic courses only, and the trend year by year.
Your classes
One row per class, grouped by year. Got different grades each semester? Add each semester as its own row and set Length to “Semester”.
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Class | Subject | Grade | Level | Length | Credits | A–G | UC hon. | Move or remove |
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What these numbers are, and aren’t
Your transcript GPA is the one your school calculates; these are estimates to plan with. Colleges recalculate in their own ways, and the college’s own page is the final word.
UC and Cal State: only classes on your school’s A–G list count, and only classes you mark as UC-approved honors get the extra point. Check your school’s list: a class that sounds right may not be on it. For Cal State we group summer classes the way UC does; Cal State’s own calculator is the final word.
UC’s GPA page (universityofcalifornia.edu, opens in a new tab)Cal State’s calculator (calstate.edu, opens in a new tab)
On the school scale an A+ counts as 4.0, the same as an A, and no extra points are added to an F.
Two scales
Grade points
Your school’s 4.0 scale, and UC and Cal State’s, where pluses and minuses don’t count.
Grade | School | UC |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 4.0 | 4 |
| A | 4.0 | 4 |
| A- | 3.7 | 4 |
| B+ | 3.3 | 3 |
| B | 3.0 | 3 |
| B- | 2.7 | 3 |
| C+ | 2.3 | 2 |
Grade | School | UC |
|---|---|---|
| C | 2.0 | 2 |
| C- | 1.7 | 2 |
| D+ | 1.3 | 1 |
| D | 1.0 | 1 |
| D- | 0.7 | 1 |
| F | 0.0 | 0 |
Estimates to plan with, not your official GPA. Your school’s transcript and each college’s own page are the final word.
Where these facts come from
On the common 4.0 scale: A+ and A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D = 1.0, F = 0. Some schools don’t use pluses and minuses, or use different cutoffs.
D- = 0.7. BigFuture’s chart has no D- row, so this value follows UC Berkeley’s published grade scale, which also gives an A+ no more points than an A.
GPA is the average of your grade points across classes. This calculator weights each class by its credits, which gives the same answer as a plain average when every class has the same credits.
Many high schools add extra points for honors, AP and IB classes, and how much varies by school. The +0.5 (honors) and +1.0 (AP, IB, dual enrollment) here are starting values — change them to match your school.
Many colleges recalculate GPA their own way for admissions, and may leave out some classes or the extra points for honors and AP.
The University of California calculates its own GPA from A–G courses taken from the summer after 9th grade through the summer after 11th grade. Classes in the summer after 9th grade and the summer after 10th grade count as 10th grade; the summer after 11th grade counts as 11th grade.
For its GPA, UC converts each semester’s letter grade to points: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. Pluses and minuses don’t count. The GPA is the total points divided by the number of letter grades.
UC adds 1 extra point for each semester of a UC-approved honors course, up to 8 semesters, with no more than 4 from 10th grade. A D or F in an honors course earns no extra point. This "weighted, capped" number is the UC GPA.
UC-approved honors courses are AP, IB Higher Level and designated IB Standard Level courses, UC-transferable college courses, and UC-certified honors courses that appear on your school’s course list.
To be considered, UC requires a GPA of at least 3.0 (3.4 for nonresidents) in A–G courses from 10th and 11th grade, with no grade lower than a C.
UC publishes admissions GPAs three ways: unweighted, weighted-capped (honors points up to the cap) and fully weighted (every honors point, no cap).
Cal State (CSU) also calculates its GPA from A–G grades in 10th and 11th grade, counting each semester separately, with extra points for up to 8 semesters of approved honors, AP, IB or college courses finished with a C or better — but only 2 of those semesters can come from 10th grade.
Neither CSU nor UC uses plus or minus grades in its GPA: a C- counts as a C.
Example of a core-academic recalculation: the University of Central Florida recalculates GPA from academic core courses — English, math, science, social studies and foreign language — and adds its own extra points for honors, AP, IB, AICE and dual enrollment.
Another example: the University of Georgia recalculates a GPA for every first-year applicant from academic courses in the five core areas only. Each college decides its own method.