Work out your weighted GPA with honors and AP bonuses included. Enter up to four courses with their letter grade, credits and level, and this weighted GPA calculator gives your weighted GPA, your unweighted GPA and the points behind both.
Formula: weighted GPA = sum of (grade points + level bonus) x credits divided by total credits. Grade points run A = 4.0 to F = 0. Honors adds 0.5 and AP or IB adds 1.0.
Enter up to four courses. Each course needs a letter grade, its credit hours and its level. Courses with zero credits are left out of the average.
A weighted GPA starts from the standard 4.0 scale. An A is worth 4.0 points, a B is worth 3.0, a C is worth 2.0, a D is worth 1.0 and an F is worth 0. Plus and minus grades sit between them, so an A- is 3.7, a B+ is 3.3 and a B- is 2.7.
Then each course gets a bonus for its level. Regular courses get no bonus. Honors courses add 0.5 and AP or IB courses add 1.0. An A in an AP course is worth 5.0 points, which is why a strong weighted GPA can pass 4.0.
The formula is weighted GPA = sum of (grade points + level bonus) x credits, divided by total credits. Each course is weighted by its credits, so a 4 credit course counts more than a 1 credit course. Our GPA calculator works out an unweighted GPA the same way, and our CGPA calculator covers cumulative GPA across semesters.
A student takes four courses. Work out the weighted GPA.
The unweighted GPA for the same four courses is (12 + 9 + 14.8 + 9.9) / 13 = 45.7 / 13 = 3.52. The honors and AP bonuses add 0.34. The same steps work for any set of courses, so try your own grades in the tool above.
An unweighted GPA caps every course at 4.0, whatever its level. An A in a regular course and an A in AP Calculus count exactly the same. A weighted GPA rewards the harder course, so the same student scores higher on the weighted scale.
In the worked example, the unweighted GPA is 3.52 and the weighted GPA is 3.86. The 0.34 gap is the reward for taking one AP course and one Honors course. A student who takes only regular courses has the same weighted and unweighted GPA, because no bonuses apply.
Colleges know the scales differ, so they often recalculate every applicant on one common scale before comparing. A weighted GPA above 4.0 looks strong, but it cannot be compared directly with an unweighted 4.0 from another school. Our percentage to GPA converter converts a percentage grade to the 4.0 scale if your school reports percentages.
The bonuses in this calculator are the most common US convention, Honors +0.5 and AP or IB +1.0, but they are not universal. Some schools use +1.0 for Honors and +2.0 for AP. Some weight only AP courses, and some do not weight at all. Always check your own school handbook or transcript before you submit a weighted GPA on an application.
Two details in this calculator follow the common convention. First, D and F grades get no bonus, so a failed AP course never scores better than a failed regular course. Second, an A+ counts as 4.0, the same as an A, because most schools cap the scale at 4.0.
Grade scales differ too. Some schools use plus and minus grades, as this calculator does, and some use whole letters only. Some count an A- as 3.7 and some as 3.67. If your school uses a different scale, use its numbers instead of the ones here. Our final grade calculator works out what you need on a final exam to reach a target grade.
To plan for a target, work backwards from the formula. Multiply the target GPA by your total credits to get the points you need, then see which grades get you there. For 13 credits and a target of 4.0, you need 52 weighted points. The worked example gives 50.2, so 1.8 more points would do it.
One grade change can close that gap. Raising the B in Honors to an A adds (4.0 + 0.5 - 3.5) x 3 = 3 points, taking the total to 53.2 and the GPA to 4.09. Raising the B+ in the regular course to an A- adds (3.7 - 3.3) x 3 = 1.2 points, taking the total to 51.4 and the GPA to 3.95, just short.
Advanced courses move the number faster, because the bonus multiplies with the credits. A one letter improvement in an AP course is worth more than the same improvement in a regular course, which is the whole point of weighting. Focus your effort where the points are biggest, and check the result here before the term ends.
Add a level bonus to each grade on the 4.0 scale, multiply by the course credits, add up all the courses and divide by total credits. In the worked example, 50.2 weighted points over 13 credits gives 3.86.
There is no single number that counts as good everywhere, because schools use different scales. A weighted GPA above 4.0 means the student earned mostly A grades in honors or AP courses.
Honors courses add 0.5 and AP or IB courses add 1.0 to the 4.0 scale points. An A in an Honors course counts as 4.5, and an A in an AP course counts as 5.0.
No, not in this calculator. D and F grades get no level bonus, so a failed AP course never scores better than a failed regular course. Check your school policy, because some schools handle this differently.
An unweighted GPA caps every course at 4.0, whatever its level. A weighted GPA adds a bonus for honors and AP courses, so it can pass 4.0. The worked example gives 3.52 unweighted and 3.86 weighted.
Yes. An A in an AP course counts as 5.0, so a student with mostly A grades in AP courses can finish above 4.0. In this calculator the highest possible weighted GPA is 5.0.
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