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Clemson’s GPA uses whole letter grades only: A is 4, B 3, C 2, D 1 and F 0, with no plus or minus. An incomplete counts as an F until the work is made up, P, NP and W stay out, and a retaken course counts both grades unless you use Academic Forgiveness on a D or F.
Clemson’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”.
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
Follow your syllabus. A displayed percentage can round up while the unrounded score stays below a cutoff.
Only changes how results are shown. Extra places appear when rounding would push a score over a letter cutoff.
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 Clemson’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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Copy the courses from your unofficial transcript, degree audit or a spreadsheet and paste them here, one course per line with its grade and credits. Term headings such as “Fall 2025” keep the courses in their terms. Your grades stay in this browser.
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Course
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This replaces the courses above. You can put them back afterwards.
Save my courses or compare versions
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To compare plans, save the courses as they are now as a version, change them, and save again. Versions stay in this browser until you delete them.
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Clemson’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Clemson
Clemson 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 Clemson
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 Clemson counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Clemson GPA
I
Incomplete: a small part of the semester’s work is left
Counts as an F (0 points) until the work is made up. It must be resolved within thirty days of the first day of classes of your next session (summer doesn’t count), or it becomes an F; you can’t remove it by retaking the course. Rule
W
Withdrew after the first two weeks of classes and before the last five
No quality points, and left out of the Clemson GPA. Rule
P or NP
Pass or No Pass, in a course offered only as Pass/No Pass
Left out of the Clemson GPA. You can’t choose Pass/No Pass for a letter-graded course. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
A retake doesn’t erase the first grade: both stay on your record and count in your GPA. Academic Forgiveness takes up to two courses with a D or F out of the GPA (never a C), once per course and for Clemson courses only; it can’t be reversed and lowers your earned hours. You can retake a course passed below a B; retaking one passed with a B or better adds nothing to your GPA. After you graduate, forgiveness is no longer possible. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Only grades from Clemson courses count in your Clemson GPA, and in the minimum GPA that keeps you enrolled. A course you had forgiven can’t come back as transfer credit. Rule
Clemson GPA lines
These are Clemson’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 Clemson
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 1.5 in a semester
Academic alert
Whatever your cumulative GPA; it isn’t noted on your permanent record. Full rule
Below 2.0 cumulative
Academic probation, not noted on your permanent record
You can take 16 credit hours at most. You stay eligible to enroll by reaching a 2.0 cumulative GPA, by passing at least 12 graded hours with a 2.4 semester GPA, or by reaching Clemson’s minimum: 1.85 for 1 to 89 attempted hours, 2.00 from 90. Otherwise the next step is a one-semester suspension. Full rule
3.50 to 3.99 in a fall or spring semester
Dean’s List (4.00: President’s List)
At least 12 semester hours, not counting Pass/No Pass work. Full rule
3.70 or higher cumulative
Graduation with honors: cum laude 3.70, magna cum laude 3.85, summa cum laude 3.95
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 alone can leave you below 2.0. A 4-hour F in Chemistry retaken for a C, plus a 3-hour A: both attempts count, (0 × 4 + 2 × 4 + 4 × 3) ÷ 11 = 1.82. With Academic Forgiveness on the F it would be (2 × 4 + 4 × 3) ÷ 7 = 2.86.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Clemson 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.
