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Cornell’s GPA counts every letter grade earned at Cornell on a 4.3 scale: A+ is 4.3, A 4.0, A− 3.7, B+ 3.3 and so on down to F at 0.0. S and U grades, W, and INC, NG, NGR and R stay out.
Cornell’s points: A+ 4.30, A 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.30 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.
Example courses. Change them to yours, or
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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 Cornell’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.
Import courses from a transcript or spreadsheet
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
Nothing is sent to us. Untick the box to forget them.
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.
Open a file you saved with “Save the versions to a file”, in this browser or another. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.
Cornell’s rules checked in its Cornell University 2026–2027 Catalog (Courses of Study). Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Cornell
Cornell 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 Cornell
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.
A retake never replaces the first grade: both grades stay on the transcript and both count in the GPA. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Only grades earned at Cornell count; transfer credits do not factor into the Cornell GPA. Rule
Cornell GPA lines
These are Cornell’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 Cornell
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Semester GPA of 2.0
Part of good academic standing, with rules set by each college
In Arts and Sciences you also need at least 12 academic credits that semester, among other conditions; falling short brings a review and can bring a warning. Engineering students not yet in a major need a semester GPA and a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0; once in a major, that major’s standards apply. Full rule
Cumulative GPA of 2.00
The minimum to graduate in several colleges
Agriculture and Life Sciences, Human Ecology and Architecture, Art, and Planning all publish this minimum. Each college sets its own grade-average requirements for the degree. Full rule
Top 5%, next 10%, next 15%
Summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude
Starting with December 2026 degrees, Latin honors depend only on your final cumulative GPA, ranked against students in your own college’s degree program; there is no fixed GPA cutoff. Older college honors systems end after Summer 2026. Full rule
No semester list
Cornell no longer has a Dean’s List
The Dean’s List was discontinued for all students at the end of the Spring 2026 semester, and it did not apply to students who matriculated in Summer 2023 or later. 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 A+ is worth 4.3, so a Cornell GPA can go above 4.0. A 4-credit A+ and a 3-credit A: (4.3 × 4 + 4.0 × 3) ÷ 7 = 4.17. On a plain 4.0 scale, where A+ equals A, the same grades would be 4.00.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Cornell 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.
