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High school GPA calculator

Add your classes, credit values and grades. Switch weighting on to include honors, AP and IB bonus points.

Your GPA

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Add a course and pick a grade to see your GPA.

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Getting your credit values right

High school credits are not the same as college credit hours. A full-year course is normally worth one credit and a one-semester course half a credit. If every class on your schedule is a full-year course, they all weigh equally and your GPA is just the average of the grade points.

Mixing semester and year courses is where it gets easy to be off. Enter the credit value printed on your transcript rather than assuming.

The GPA colleges actually read

Your transcript shows one number. Admissions offices frequently compute a different one. The common recalculation keeps only core academic subjects, English, math, science, social studies and world languages, removes your district’s weighting, and rebuilds an unweighted 4.0 average.

Two practical consequences. An A in ceramics may not help your recalculated GPA, and a B in AP Chemistry will not be rescued by weighting once it is stripped out. Course rigour still counts, but it is read from the transcript rather than baked into the average.

If your GPA is lower than you want

Trajectory carries real weight. A student who moved from a 2.7 freshman year to a 3.8 senior year tells a more persuasive story than a flat 3.3, and admissions readers say so openly. Use the target GPA calculator to see what the remaining terms would need to look like.

Be realistic about the arithmetic. By senior year there are few credits left to move a three-year average, so it may make more sense to focus on course rigour, test scores and essays instead.

Letter grade to 4.0 grade points
GradePointsPercentage
A+4.097-100
A4.093-96
A-3.790-92
B+3.387-89
B3.083-86
B-2.780-82
C+2.377-79
C2.073-76
C-1.770-72
D+1.367-69
D1.063-66
D-0.760-62
F0.0Below 60

Common questions

How do I calculate my high school GPA?
Turn each letter grade into points on the 4.0 scale, multiply by the credit value of the course, add the results and divide by total credits. Most high school courses are worth one credit for a full year and half a credit for a semester, so if all your courses carry equal weight the GPA is simply the average of the grade points.
What is the difference between weighted and unweighted GPA?
An unweighted GPA caps every course at 4.0 regardless of difficulty. A weighted GPA adds bonus points for honors, AP and IB courses, usually 0.5 or 1.0, so it can rise above 4.0. Most high schools report both.
Do colleges recalculate my high school GPA?
Most selective colleges do. They typically drop non-academic courses such as physical education and electives, remove your school’s weighting, and rebuild an unweighted GPA from core academic subjects only. That gives them a number they can compare across thousands of different high schools.
Do freshman year grades count?
They count toward the cumulative GPA on your transcript, which colleges see. Many admissions offices weight later years more heavily because they show your trajectory, and a clear upward trend from a weak freshman year reads well. Some state systems recalculate using grades from tenth grade onward only.
What GPA do I need for college?
Open-admission and many state schools accept students around 2.0 to 2.5. Moderately selective universities typically look for 3.0 to 3.5. Highly selective institutions usually see unweighted GPAs above 3.8 alongside a demanding course load. GPA is one factor among coursework rigour, essays and recommendations.
Does a semester course count as much as a year course?
No. A one-semester course usually carries half a credit and a full-year course carries one, so the year-long course counts twice as much in the average. Enter the credit value your transcript shows rather than assuming every course is equal.

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