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BYU uses plus and minus grades: A is 4.0, A− 3.7, B+ 3.4, B 3.0 and so on down to D− at 0.7 and E at 0.0, with no A+. From Winter 2026 a retake counts only your most recent attempt, but grades from Fall 2011 through Fall 2025 stay in your GPA even after a retake, and BYU cuts your GPA to two decimals instead of rounding.
BYU’s points: A 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.40, B 3.00 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”.
Your class cutoffs
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Each letter starts at its lowest percentage and runs up to the next letter.
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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Include your earlier GPA
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 BYU’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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BYU’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Undergraduate Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at BYU
BYU 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.
Brigham Young University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at BYU
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 BYU counts each code
Code
What it means
In the BYU GPA
E
Failure: BYU’s failing letter grade
Counts as 0.0 points, and its credits count in your GPA, though you earn no credit. An IE counts the same way, and the Registrar’s grade table also counts WE and UW as failing grades. Rule
W
Official withdrawal: you withdrew after the add/drop deadline (the sixth business day) and by the withdraw deadline (the 10th week of a semester or the 6th week of a term)
Left out of your GPA. A drop by the add/drop deadline leaves nothing on your transcript. Each W counts as one of the three times you may take a course. A withdrawal must be official: if you don’t officially withdraw before the deadline, you get a failing grade, and your instructor can’t change a grade to a W later. After the deadline you can petition to be withdrawn for a non-academic extenuating circumstance; if the petition is denied, you get the grade you earned. Rule
CR, P or NC
Credit or Pass shows you passed; No Credit shows you earned no credit. The course’s grade rule decides whether you get one of these or a letter grade
Left out of your GPA either way. CR and P earn credit toward graduation; NC earns none. Rule
I
Incomplete: an Incomplete Contract with your instructor for a nonacademic emergency (such as serious illness, injury or a death in the family) after the withdraw deadline, if you were attending and passing through that deadline
Left out of your GPA while it stands. The contract must be requested and approved within 30 days after the grade submission deadline, and your instructor sets the finish date, one year at most. Sitting in on or re-registering for the class doesn’t count toward finishing it. If the work isn’t done in time, the I becomes an IE, a failing grade. To graduate, incompletes must be cleared at least four weeks before graduation day. Rule
IE
Incomplete failure: the work under an Incomplete Contract wasn’t finished by its deadline
Counts as a failing grade: 0.0 points, with the course’s credits in your GPA. Rule
T
Temporary: work in progress in certain approved courses that run past the end of the semester
Left out of your GPA until your instructor posts the final grade, a letter or CR depending on the course’s grade rule. Rule
NS
Not submitted: your instructor didn’t turn in grades by the grade submission deadline
Left out of your GPA until your instructor submits an official grade change. Rule
Audit
You take a class without credit, added with a permission-to-audit code within the first six class days
No grade and no credit, so it never touches your GPA, and it doesn’t appear on your transcript. It isn’t one of your three attempts at a course, but audit hours count toward your maximum hours and tuition. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
From Winter 2026 on, when you retake a BYU course, only your most recent attempt counts in your GPA and credit hours, even if it’s lower. Earlier attempts stay on your transcript marked RPT. Attempts from Fall 2011 through Fall 2025 are the exception: every one of them stays in your GPA, even if you retake the course now. An attempt from before Fall 2011 is replaced if you retake the course now. You can take a course at most three times, and each W, Independent Study or challenge exam attempt counts as one of the three; an audit doesn’t. A later W doesn’t replace an earlier grade. To replace the earlier attempt, the retake must carry at least as many credit hours. R-suffix courses (such as Music 160R) are left out of this rule, so every attempt counts. A BYU retake doesn’t replace a grade from another school, and a retake after you graduate doesn’t replace a course taken before. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer grades never count in your BYU GPA, which covers only BYU coursework. BYU also keeps a Total GPA that adds the transfer work it accepted, and you need at least 2.0 in both to graduate; Latin honors use the lower of the two. Transfer grades come in as your old school reported them, except that an A+ becomes an A. Courses below C− still come in as elective credit but not as a BYU course equivalent. AP scores of 3–5 and IB scores of 5–7 can earn credit, using BYU’s own equivalencies only, and CLEP isn’t accepted. The pages read here don’t say whether AP or IB credit enters a GPA. A BYU challenge exam is different: its grade goes on your transcript and into your GPA. An exemption exam gives neither credit nor a grade. Rule
BYU cuts the GPA after the second decimal and never rounds: 1.99672 counts as 1.99. The calculator cuts it the same way.
BYU GPA lines
These are BYU’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 BYU
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 semester or term GPA
Academic Warning, then Probation
Your standing is updated only once you’ve taken at least 6 credits since the last update, so a few short terms can be judged together as one. Each low update moves you down one step: Good to Warning, then Warning to Probation. If you’ve been on Probation before (Previous standing), you go straight to Probation. A semester or term GPA and a cumulative BYU GPA of 2.0 or higher move you back up. On Warning or Probation you get a registration hold after the add/drop deadline of your next semester or term until you complete an Academic Improvement Plan (AIP). A later retake doesn’t change the standing of the semester you first took the class. Full rule
Below 2.0 semester or term GPA while on Probation
Academic Suspension (12 months away), or Dismissal (36 months away) the second time
From Good standing, it takes three low updates in a row to reach Suspension. While away you can’t take BYU day, evening or Salt Lake Center classes, but you can take BYU Independent Study. You must reapply (after Dismissal, you first petition the Academic Standards Committee), and you come back on Continued Academic Probation until you earn a 2.0 or better on at least 6 credits and your cumulative BYU GPA is 2.0 or higher. Full rule
2.0 BYU GPA and 2.0 cumulative GPA
Minimum to graduate
The cumulative GPA here includes credit transferred from other schools. Your major program can set a higher minimum. Full rule
3.5 semester GPA and the top 5% of your college
Dean’s List
You need at least 14 credit hours that semester. Each college keeps its own list; the College of Humanities asks seven hours for spring/summer. Full rule
Top 10% of graduates by GPA (3.96 or higher in August 2026)
Latin honors: cum laude for the top 5.1–10%, magna cum laude for the top 1.1–5%, summa cum laude for the top 1%; the August 2026 cutoffs were 3.96, 3.99 and 4.00
The cutoffs are set again at each graduation (June 2026: 3.94, 3.97 and 4.00; April 2026: 3.97, 3.99 and 4.00). Both your BYU GPA and your total GPA must reach the cutoff, because the lower of the two is used. You need at least 45 credit hours that count toward residency: earned on the Provo campus as an admitted day student or through BYU Online, not at the Jerusalem Center, in Study Abroad, through Independent Study or by exam. The honors appear on your diploma and transcript. 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
An E from Fall 2011 through Fall 2025 stays in your GPA even after a retake. You fail a 4-credit class (E) in Fall 2025 and retake it in Winter 2026 for a B+. With a 3-credit A and a 3-credit B, both attempts count: (0.0 × 4 + 3.4 × 4 + 4.0 × 3 + 3.0 × 3) ÷ 14 = 2.47. Had both attempts been in Winter 2026 or later, only the B+ would count: (3.4 × 4 + 4.0 × 3 + 3.0 × 3) ÷ 10 = 3.46.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your BYU 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.
