Weighted and unweighted
Weighted and Unweighted GPA Calculator
Add your classes, letter grades, levels and credits to see weighted and unweighted GPA side by side. Honors, AP/IB and dual-enrollment bonuses are editable.
Schools differ on bonuses. The defaults below are one common pattern, not a rule. Change them to match your school.
Your GPA
Ignores class level.
With honors +0.5, AP/IB +1, dual +1.
Example with four classes. Method: plus/minus letter points, plus your level bonuses on any grade above F, averaged by credits. Schools set their own bonuses; many colleges recalculate GPA with their own rules.
Grades you enter stay in this browser and are not uploaded or saved. Results are estimates: there is no single official conversion, and the school or credential evaluator reading your grades decides how they are converted. Check with them before you rely on a number.
How the two GPAs are calculated
Each letter becomes points using the plus/minus table published by one university registrar (A 4.0, A- 3.7, B+ 3.3 and so on). Unweighted GPA is the credit-weighted average of those points. Weighted GPA adds your level bonus to each class first. An F (0.0) receives no bonus.
- Honors, AP/IB and dual-enrollment bonuses are editable because schools set their own.
- A+ can count as 4.0 or 4.3, depending on your school.
- You can enter 1 to 20 classes; credits can be decimals such as 0.5.
What to expect from colleges
College Board notes that colleges may recalculate GPA, including by adjusting or removing the weighting assigned to AP or honors courses. Your weighted GPA is a useful school-level number, but not necessarily the one a college will compute.
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