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Auburn’s GPA uses whole letter grades only: A is 4.0, B 3.0, C 2.0, D 1.0 and F 0.0, with no plus or minus. A retake doesn’t replace your old grade: both attempts count unless you use the Grade Adjustment Policy, which deletes up to three D or F grades from your cumulative GPA but not from graduation honors. A WF or an FA counts as an F.
Auburn’s points: A 4.00, B 3.00, C 2.00, D 1.00 and so on.
The plus/minus cutoffs Wikipedia lists for US colleges: A+ from 97%, A 93, A- 90, B+ 87, B 83, B- 80 and so on down to D- at 60. It is not universal, so use your syllabus's cutoffs when they differ.Source: Wikipedia, “Academic grading in the United States”.
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Rounding and decimal places
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A letter typed as a score counts as the lowest percentage for that letter on this scale. Use the original percentage when you have it.
Only scales that publish GPA points can convert a percentage. Check that your school uses these same points.
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Quality points are the more exact input when the displayed GPA has already been rounded. Do not include these same credits again in the course rows.
Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
These are future credits beyond the courses and earlier record entered above.
Pass/fail or a retake: what would change?
Whether a pass/fail course leaves the GPA and whether a retake replaces the old grade are your school’s rules; the table below shows Auburn’s.
One grade higher: which course moves your GPA most?
Each line raises one course by one grade on the grade points above and leaves the others as entered, so a course that carries more credit moves the GPA more. A course you haven’t finished can be marked “Planned” in its ⋯ menu: the GPA so far then leaves it out, and the projection counts it at the grade you chose. A grade already on your transcript changes only under your school’s retake or grade-change rules.
Compare with a GPA line (dean's list, scholarship, good standing)Course groups and equal weights
Set a course's group or term, or mark it planned, in its ⋯ menu. Groups are just your labels: they don’t apply AMCAS or other application-service GPA rules.
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Auburn’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Auburn University Bulletin. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Auburn
Auburn multiplies each course’s grade points by its credit hours, adds them up and divides by the hours that count. Enter your courses above with these points already set.
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Auburn
A course left out of the GPA adds no points and no hours. In the calculator, choose its code or “Not counted”; a code that counts as zero lowers the GPA like a failing grade.
How Auburn counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Auburn GPA
W
Withdrawn Passing: you withdrew from a course after the census date and by the withdrawal deadline in the Academic Calendar
Left out of your term and cumulative GPA. If you drop by the census date, the course leaves no grade and no record on your transcript. After that, you can withdraw with a W through the withdrawal deadline in the Academic Calendar. The Grades section of the same Bulletin still says a W after mid-semester needs your dean’s permission; the Withdrawal Policy and the 2026–2027 calendar allow it through the withdrawal deadline. Rule
WF
Withdrawn Failing: you were approved to withdraw after the deadline and were failing the course on the withdrawal date
Counts as an F: 0.0 points, with its hours in your GPA. Withdrawals after the deadline (medical, family medical, personal or military) need approval and are normally full withdrawals from all your courses. If the failing grade came directly from the medical or personal situation behind the withdrawal, the approver can give a W instead. A WF is one of the grades you can delete under the Grade Adjustment Policy. Rule
FA
Failure for excessive absences
Counts as 0.0 points, like an F, and its hours count in your GPA. An FA is one of the grades you can delete under the Grade Adjustment Policy. Rule
S or U
Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory, in a course graded S-U or one you elect to take under the S-U option
Left out of your GPA, even a U, which is a failing grade. To elect the S-U option you must be a junior or senior with at least a 2.5 overall average on at least 20 hours earned at Auburn. You can’t use it for Core Curriculum courses or courses your curriculum requires, and you’re limited to one course a term and 12 credits in all. You can’t switch between S-U and regular grading after the 15th class day of fall or spring (the fifth class day in summer). Rule
IN
Incomplete: you asked your instructor before final grades, for a documented reason, and have completed and passed more than half of the class assignments
Left out of your GPA while it stands. Your instructor sets a deadline of at most 6 months and names the grade you get if the work isn’t done, with missing work counted as zero. If it isn’t cleared within 6 months, it automatically becomes that grade. If you’re graduating, deferred grades in courses you need for your degree generally must be cleared by mid-semester of your graduation term. Rule
NR
No grade reported: assigned automatically when your instructor doesn’t assign a letter grade
Left out of your GPA. It should be cleared no later than four weeks after the previous semester’s final grade deadline. Rule
AU
Audit: you attend a lecture course without credit, with the approval of the dean and the department head
Left out of your GPA: you get no grade or credit, and rare or no attendance is noted on your record. You can’t switch from audit to credit once classes begin, but you can switch from credit to audit within the first four weeks of classes (seven class days in summer). The Registrar’s audit request form says until the 15th class day; the 2026–2027 Bulletin says four weeks. Rule
XD, XF, XFA, XWF or XU
A D, F, FA, WF or U you’ve deleted under the Grade Adjustment Policy
Left out of your cumulative GPA, and the course’s credit is removed too. The grade stays on your transcript, which notes that your cumulative GPA may not include every course. It still counts for the Dean’s List and graduation honors, and an XD that term keeps you off the Dean’s List. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
A retake doesn’t replace your old grade: both attempts count in your GPA unless you use the Grade Adjustment Policy (GAP) on the first one. You can retake a course in which you earned a D or F once without your academic dean’s written permission. Retaking a course you passed with an A, B or C for credit needs that permission, unless the Bulletin lists the course as repeatable. If you retake a D without GAP, the course’s hours count only once toward graduation. GAP lets you delete up to three D or F grades (FA, WF and U included) from your cumulative GPA, along with their credit. You can request it in writing through your academic dean’s office any time before you graduate; the Registrar’s guide has your advisor submit it in AU Access, and you then get an email to complete an acknowledgment. It’s permanent, the grade stays on your transcript, and it can’t reach transfer grades, courses from an earlier bachelor’s degree, grades given for academic dishonesty, or a program you’ve already finished. Professional students in pharmacy and veterinary medicine can’t use it. A required course you adjust must still be retaken at Auburn before you graduate. Graduation honors and the Dean’s List still use every grade, and graduate and professional schools may use your unadjusted GPA. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Your Auburn GPA counts only course work you attempt at Auburn, so transfer grades never enter it, and the Grade Adjustment Policy can’t touch them. A transfer D may be accepted, but it counts toward your degree only if a D in the matching Auburn course would. Credit from a two-year college comes in as lower-division credit only, up to half your Auburn curriculum and no more than 64 hours. AP and IB scores can earn credit under Auburn’s current standards once you send official documentation, but they aren’t course work attempted at Auburn, so they stay out of your GPA. If you’ve used GAP on a course, the retake must be at Auburn; transfer credit won’t count as the repeat. Rule
Auburn GPA lines
These are Auburn’s published undergraduate lines, each with the other conditions its catalog sets. Your college or program may set its own, higher lines.
Published GPA lines at Auburn
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 cumulative Auburn GPA
Academic Warning
You’re placed on Academic Warning at the end of any term in which your cumulative GPA on Auburn course work is below 2.0; at 2.0 or higher you’re in Good Standing. You can’t be suspended until you’ve had one semester on warning. Full rule
Below 2.2 term GPA and below 1.50–1.97 cumulative, while on Academic Warning
Academic Suspension: the cumulative floor is 1.50 with 0–30.999 hours earned, 1.80 with 31–60.999, 1.90 with 61–90.999 and 1.97 with 91 or more
Both conditions must apply. A first suspension keeps you out for at least one semester and a second for at least two; summer doesn’t count as a semester. You return on Academic Warning, and after two suspensions on Last Warning, where you’re dismissed unless you earn at least a 2.2 that term or reach the cumulative floor. Courses you take anywhere during a suspension can’t count toward your Auburn degree. You can appeal a first or second suspension to the Academic Appeals Committee in a short window after each term. Full rule
2.0 Auburn, degree program and major GPAs to graduate
Minimum for a bachelor’s degree
You need at least a 2.0 average across all Auburn courses attempted, across all courses credited to your degree program, and across all courses credited to your major, plus at least 120 hours. Your college, school or department may set a higher minimum. Full rule
3.75 or higher for the semester
Dean’s List
You need at least 12 credit hours that semester not counting S-U option courses, a passing grade in every course, and no D or XD grade that term. Every grade counts, including grades deleted under the Grade Adjustment Policy. The honor is noted on your permanent record. The College of Architecture, Design and Construction and the College of Nursing count S-U courses toward the 12 hours only when your curriculum requires them (Nursing only with an S). Full rule
3.40 or higher unadjusted Auburn GPA at graduation
Graduation honors: cum laude 3.40, magna cum laude 3.60, summa cum laude 3.80
Only Auburn course work counts, and you need at least 60 hours in residence at Auburn. Honors use every Auburn grade, including grades deleted under the Grade Adjustment Policy; S and U grades and non-credit courses are left out. The Registrar’s graduation page counts an unadjusted GPA of 3.395–3.594 as cum laude, 3.595–3.794 as magna cum laude and 3.795 or higher as summa cum laude. For a second bachelor’s degree, you need the honors average on at least 60 additional hours. The honor goes on your diploma and permanent record. Full rule
To see how far you are from one of them, enter it under “Compare with a GPA line” in the calculator, or as your target in the target GPA planner.
A worked example
A retake doesn’t replace your first grade. You fail a 4-hour course, retake it and earn a B; with a 3-hour A and a 3-hour C, both attempts count: (0.0 × 4 + 3.0 × 4 + 4.0 × 3 + 2.0 × 3) ÷ 14 = 2.14. Use one of your three Grade Adjustment Policy deletions on the F and your cumulative GPA becomes (3.0 × 4 + 4.0 × 3 + 2.0 × 3) ÷ 10 = 3.00, but graduation honors still count the F, so they use the 2.14.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Auburn academic record.
For any other college, the college GPA calculator starts on the common plus/minus 4.0 points and takes your school’s own. Cumulative GPA combines terms you already have, and the GPA guide answers what a GPA means.
