Weighted GPA calculator

A weighted GPA gives harder classes more credit for the same letter. The usual rule, and the one this page uses, is that an honors class adds 0.5 to the grade points of the letter and an AP or IB class adds 1.0. An A in an AP class is therefore worth 5.0 rather than 4.0, which is why a weighted GPA can be above 4.0 and an unweighted one cannot.

The bonus applies to the grade you earned, not to the class you signed up for: a B in an AP class is 3.0 + 1.0 = 4.0, the same as an A in a regular class. A failing grade earns no bonus at all — an F is 0.0 in every class, which is how almost every school handbook writes it.

Both, and usually neither exactly as your school calculated it. Many universities recalculate applicants' GPAs themselves from the transcript, using their own scale, precisely because no two high schools weight the same way. Some count only academic courses; some cap the bonus; some ignore weighting entirely and read the course list to see how hard the schedule was.

That is the argument for knowing your unweighted GPA as well, which this page shows next to the weighted one. The unweighted figure is comparable between schools; the weighted one tells the story of what you took.

Half a point for honors and a full point for AP is the common pattern, not a rule. Some districts weight honors by a full point, some weight dual-enrollment courses like AP, and some use a 5.0 scale where every grade is shifted rather than only the advanced ones. If your handbook says something different from the table above, the unweighted column is still right — and it is the safer number to quote.