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Georgetown’s GPA, which the Bulletin also calls the Quality Point Index (QPI), is your quality points divided by your credits attempted: A 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33, B 3.00, B− 2.67, C+ 2.33, C 2.00, C− 1.67, D+ 1.33, D 1.00 and F 0.00. It is truncated at the third decimal place, never rounded. Pass/fail grades (S and U), transfer credit, Consortium courses and grades from affiliated study abroad programs stay out of it. You can’t repeat a course you’ve earned credit for, and if you retake a failed course and pass, the F and the new grade both count.
Georgetown’s points: A 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33, 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
Letter
Lowest %
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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 Georgetown’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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Georgetown’s rules checked in its Georgetown University Bulletin, 2026–2027 Edition. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Georgetown
Georgetown 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.
Georgetown University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Georgetown
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 Georgetown counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Georgetown GPA
F
Failure
Counts 0.00 in your GPA. A failure is also recorded if you stop completing a course you haven’t officially withdrawn from. Retaking a failed course doesn’t remove it: when you pass the retake, the F and the passing grade are both computed in your average. Rule
S / U
Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory (pass/fail)
Except in your first year, you may take one elective course (three or more credits) pass/fail each semester, or several one- or two-credit electives up to four credits, with at most six courses or 24 credits in all. It is for free electives within your normal load, not for language classes at the language-learning level or studio art, and you must ask by the last day to withdraw. S means C or better and earns credit; U means below C and earns none. Neither affects your QPI, and once you choose pass/fail no letter grade can ever be recorded. In the College, courses that fulfill core, major, minor or certificate requirements must be taken for a letter grade unless they are only offered pass/fail. Rule
W
Withdrawn
A course you drop during add/drop is deleted from your record; after add/drop it is a withdrawal, shown as W. You request it in GU Experience by the withdrawal deadline, and you can’t withdraw to 11 or fewer credits without your Dean’s Office’s permission. For financial aid progress, a withdrawal after add/drop counts as attempted but not completed credits. Rule
N
Incomplete (provisional grade)
Only if illness or an emergency at the end of the term keeps you from meeting the deadlines, with approval from both your instructor and your advising dean, and only if you’re in good standing in the course and in good academic standing in general; students on academic probation can’t get one. The final grade is due by March 30 for a fall course, September 30 for spring and November 30 for summer; if the work isn’t finished, your instructor submits a letter grade A through F on the work done. Without approval you get an administrative failure or a letter grade on the work done by the regular deadline, and the Registrar records an unauthorized N as F (SFS likewise treats unauthorized incompletes as failing grades). For financial aid progress, an incomplete counts as attempted but not completed until it is resolved. Rule
Audit
Audited course
No credit and no grade, at the standard per-credit tuition. Students in the College of Arts & Sciences, McDonough, the School of Health and GU-Q may not audit, and language courses at the expository writing level and below and Consortium courses can’t be audited. Switching from credit to audit takes your advising dean’s approval during add/drop, and once you register to audit, no letter grade can be recorded. In SFS, audited courses don’t count toward the degree. Rule
Posted in GU Experience after midterms in the fall and spring. They aren’t part of your permanent academic record. Rule
Consortium
Course taken through the Washington Consortium
Open to juniors and seniors; first-year students and sophomores may be eligible for language study other than elementary and intermediate French, German, Russian and Spanish. It must be taken for a grade (no audit, no pass/fail), but the grade appears on your transcript without quality points and doesn’t affect your Georgetown GPA; the credits count toward your degree. Normally at most four Consortium courses count toward it. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
You may not repeat a course for which you’ve already earned credit. When a course is repeated, both grades stay on your transcript and only the first passing grade counts in your GPA, with credit given only once. So a failed course keeps hurting: retake it and pass, and both the F and the passing grade are computed in your average. In the Berkley School of Nursing, BSN students must earn a C in each required science, health studies and nursing course, and below that must repeat the course and earn a C or better before moving on. In the School of Health’s Departments of Health Management and Policy, Human Science and Global Health, a failing grade in a required course must be repeated. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Credits from other institutions, including transfer, study abroad and Consortium credit, aren’t computed in your cumulative QPI. Grades from Georgetown-administered programs (Villa Le Balze, faculty-led programs, GU-Qatar and Georgetown summer programs abroad) do count. Grades from affiliated study abroad programs, failures included, are listed on your transcript but left out of your GPA, and courses can’t be taken pass/fail abroad. For transfer students, credit from another accredited institution needs a grade at least one level above minimum passing, such as a C (a pass counts if it is defined as C or better), and at most half the credits your degree requires can transfer. McDonough requires a letter grade of C or better for summer courses taken elsewhere and doesn’t compute or transcript those grades. After you enroll, the College and SFS accept at most 12 credits of summer work taken elsewhere, McDonough four courses (12 credits), and the School of Health and Nursing four courses or 12 credits. Rule
Georgetown truncates your QPI at the third decimal place without rounding, so 2.5825 is a 2.582. The calculator shows your QPI the same way, to three decimals and cut, so 3.4999 shows as 3.499, not 3.500.
Georgetown GPA lines
These are Georgetown’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 Georgetown
GPA line
What it means
Also required
2.0 cumulative
Graduation minimum
Every undergraduate needs it, along with at least 120 credits. Full rule
3.5 / 3.7 / 3.9 semester GPA
Dean’s List / Second Honors / First Honors
Only for full-time students, which here means at least 12 credits of courses that earn quality points that semester; pass/fail credits don’t count toward the 12. SFS gives the same lines as 3.500, 3.700 and 3.900 and adds that there must be no failing grades that semester. Full rule
Top 5% / next 10% / next 10%
Summa / magna / cum laude
No fixed GPA is printed: each cutoff is the lowest GPA within that percentile of the current senior class’s cumulative GPAs in your school, and all BSFS students in SFS and GU-Q are ranked together. Missing grades are left out of the GPA used for the cutoff. Full rule
Below 2.0 cumulative
Academic probation
Failing any course also brings automatic probation, and not completing 12 credits in two or more semesters can too. On probation you’re generally expected to earn at least a 2.0 on at least 12 credits the next semester. SFS and McDonough also place you on probation for a semester GPA below 2.00. Probation isn’t noted on your transcript. Full rule
Below 1.20 / 1.70 / 1.90 cumulative
Suspension or dismissal possible (first-year students / sophomores / juniors)
Judged at the end of the academic year. Failing a course while on probation, failing two courses in one semester or three in all at Georgetown can also lead to suspension or dismissal. Full rule
2.0 cumulative; two-thirds of courses attempted
Satisfactory academic progress for federal aid and Georgetown scholarships and loans
You must also finish within 150 percent of your program’s published length. Incompletes until resolved, withdrawals after add/drop and failing grades count as attempted but not completed. Accepted transfer and AP credits count as both attempted and completed, and repeated courses count as attempted. 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
At Georgetown a retaken F never leaves your GPA. Say you have three 3-credit courses: an A, a B+ and an F. Your QPI is (4.00 × 3 + 3.33 × 3 + 0.00 × 3) ÷ 9 = 21.99 ÷ 9 = 2.4433…, truncated to 2.443. You retake the failed course and earn a B. Both the F and the B are computed, so the credits attempted grow to 12: (21.99 + 3.00 × 3) ÷ 12 = 30.99 ÷ 12 = 2.5825, truncated to 2.582, as the calculator shows it. Had the B replaced the F, you would have 30.99 ÷ 9 = 3.443. You earn the course’s credit only once, and you couldn’t have retaken the course at all if you had passed it the first time.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Georgetown 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.
