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Georgia Tech’s GPA counts five letter grades: an A earns 4 quality points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F 0. Each grade is multiplied by the course’s credit hours, and the total is divided by all the credit hours you’ve attempted; the result is truncated, not rounded, after two decimal places. S and U (pass/fail), V (audit), I, W, NR and IJ stay out of your GPA, and so do grades from transfer, cross enrollment and concurrent registration courses. Retake a course and both grades count, unless, as an undergraduate, you use one of your two grade substitutions on a D or F.
Georgia Tech’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
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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 Georgia Tech’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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Georgia Tech’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech 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.
Georgia Institute of Technology letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Georgia Tech
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 Georgia Tech counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Georgia Tech GPA
F
Failure
Worth no quality points and counts in your GPA. An F (or U) means you’ve failed the course: you must repeat and pass it before you get credit, and a required course with an F must be repeated. An F can be one of your two grade substitutions. Stop attending without withdrawing and you can get an F, U or I. Rule
D
Passing
Worth 1 quality point. A D can be one of your two grade substitutions. Some majors require a grade higher than D in specified courses. Repeat a D course and fail it, and you need a Petition to the Faculty to use the D toward graduation. Rule
S / U
Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory (pass/fail)
Not in your GPA, and can’t be changed later to a grade that counts. A U is a failure that must be repeated and passed for credit. Degree programs may use pass/fail coursework only in their Free Electives area; courses for Core IMPACTS, your major, minor or certificate, or institutional requirements can’t be taken pass/fail, and at most nine pass/fail hours count toward your degree. You can switch between letter grade and pass/fail until the last day to withdraw from individual courses without penalty. Midterm progress report grades are also S or U, but they never enter any GPA or your permanent academic record. Rule
V
Visitor (audit)
No credit and no effect on your GPA. If you don’t meet the instructor’s requirements for the audit, you’re withdrawn with a W. The financial aid office doesn’t count audited courses as earned or attempted credits. Rule
I
Incomplete
Not in your GPA. Given only for non-academic reasons beyond your control, when your work has been satisfactory and you’ve made significant progress; if you couldn’t have passed, the instructor gives an F. Remove it by the end of your next term in residence (or, if you aren’t enrolled, by the end of the term one calendar year after it was given), or it becomes an F. Repeating the course doesn’t remove an I. Rule
W
Withdrawal without Penalty
Not in your GPA. Not allowed after 60 percent of the term except for hardship. Withdrawn courses still count in the financial aid office’s Pace and Maximum Time Frame, and in HOPE and Zell Miller attempted hours (but not their GPA). Rule
NR
Not Reported
Not in your GPA. Used when the instructor doesn’t submit grades by the deadline, through no fault of yours. The financial aid office doesn’t review your progress until a grade is entered. Rule
IJ
Incomplete Judicial
Not in your GPA. A temporary grade while reported academic misconduct is investigated; it’s changed to a permanent grade based on the outcome. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
You can’t repeat a course in which you earned a B or higher. With a faculty advisor’s approval you can retake others, but a later grade doesn’t replace an earlier one: all grades and hours count in your GPA, while the course counts only once toward your degree. Fail the retake of a course you already had credit for and you lose the original credit. Grade substitution is the exception: as an undergraduate you may repeat up to two Georgia Tech courses in which you earned a D or F (in Summer 2019 or later), and the original course and its hours leave your cumulative GPA. Each course can be substituted only once, must be repeated at Georgia Tech before your final term, and isn’t eligible if you were found responsible for academic misconduct in it; substitutions under the pre-2019 policy count toward the two. File with the Registrar’s Office by the withdrawal deadline of your next term of enrollment after the repeat, not during the repeat term. All grades stay on your transcript, the excluded course still counts for satisfactory progress, financial aid eligibility and tuition, and a posted substitution can’t be undone. There are no exceptions or petitions. HOPE and Zell Miller GPAs still include both attempts, and many graduate and professional schools recalculate GPAs too. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Georgia Tech transfers credits, not grades: courses from accredited colleges and universities in the US and Canada that correspond in time and content to Georgia Tech courses earn credit with a C or better, and none of those grades count in your GPA. A Pass from another school is assumed to equal a C when credit is awarded. You can’t replace a course you took at Georgia Tech with one taken elsewhere unless your Georgia Tech attempt ended in a W. Cross enrollment and concurrent registration courses also need a C or better for credit, and their grades stay out of your GPA. 38 of your final 45 credit hours must be taken at Georgia Tech. For financial aid, accepted transfer credits count as attempted and earned but don’t affect the GPA. HOPE counts every credit hour attempted after high school graduation, even hours Georgia Tech didn’t accept, but leaves out AP, IB and CLEP credit. Rule
Georgia Tech truncates GPAs after two decimal places instead of rounding, so a 3.289 shows as 3.28.
Georgia Tech GPA lines
These are Georgia Tech’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 Georgia Tech
GPA line
What it means
Also required
2.00 cumulative
Minimum to graduate
The GPA for your entire academic program. Bachelor’s programs require at least 120 credit hours plus the Wellness Requirement, 122 in total. Full rule
2.00 term and cumulative
Minimum satisfactory GPA for undergraduates
Your standing depends on both your most recent term and your cumulative GPA. Students not on probation are in good standing. Full rule
Term or cumulative GPA below 2.00
Academic warning
Still good standing, but your fall or spring load is capped at 16 credit hours. Warning ends once both your term and cumulative GPAs are above 2.00. Full rule
Term GPA below 2.00 while on warning
Academic probation
Your fall or spring load is capped at 14 credit hours. Probation ends once both your term and cumulative GPAs are above 2.00. Full rule
Term GPA below 1.00 (at least 6 graded hours)
Probation straight from good standing
If you’re already on warning and your cumulative GPA is below 2.00, you’re dropped from the rolls instead. Full rule
Term and cumulative GPA below 2.00 while on probation
Dropped for unsatisfactory scholarship
A student on probation with an unsatisfactory term but a satisfactory overall academic record may be reviewed and either dropped or continued on probation. Full rule
3.00 term, 12+ letter-graded hours
Dean’s List
You can’t be on academic warning or probation or subject to disciplinary action, and all your grades must be reported. Students enrolled in fewer than 12 hours can make the Part-time Dean’s List with a 3.00 on at least three letter-graded hours. Full rule
4.00 term, 12+ letter-graded hours
Faculty Honors
With no W grades that term, not on academic warning or probation, and not subject to disciplinary action. Full rule
3.55 / 3.35 / 3.15
Graduation with highest honor / high honor / honor
You need at least 60 semester credit hours earned at Georgia Tech. The honors recognized at Commencement are tentative, based on your GPA entering your graduating term. Full rule
2.00 cumulative, 67% of hours completed
Satisfactory academic progress for financial aid
Reviewed at the end of every fall, spring and summer term. You must also finish within 150% of your program’s published length. The first term you miss the GPA or Pace standard puts you on financial aid warning. Full rule
3.0 HOPE GPA
Keep the HOPE Scholarship
Checked at the end of every spring term and at the end of the terms in which you reach 30, 60 and 90 attempted hours; once lost, HOPE can be regained only once. The HOPE GPA counts grade-substituted courses, and B, C and D grades in approved STEM courses taken Fall 2017 or later get an extra 0.5. Full rule
3.30 Zell Miller GPA
Keep the Zell Miller Scholarship
Checked at the same points as HOPE. If you lose Zell Miller, you can still keep HOPE with a 3.0. Grade-substituted courses still count, and the same 0.5 STEM weight applies. 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 Georgia Tech, a retake doesn’t replace your grade unless you use a grade substitution, and the GPA is truncated, not rounded. Say you earn a D in a 4-hour course, an A in another 4-hour course, an A in a 3-hour course and a C in a 3-hour course: (1 × 4 + 4 × 4 + 4 × 3 + 2 × 3) ÷ 14 = 38 ÷ 14 = 2.71. Retake the D course and earn a B, and both attempts count: 50 ÷ 18 = 2.777…, truncated to 2.77, not rounded to 2.78. Use one of your two grade substitutions and the D and its 4 hours leave your cumulative GPA: (3 × 4 + 4 × 4 + 4 × 3 + 2 × 3) ÷ 14 = 46 ÷ 14 = 3.285…, which shows as 3.28. The D stays on your transcript, and your HOPE or Zell Miller GPA still counts it.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Georgia Tech 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.
