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MIT’s GPA is on a 5.0 scale, weighted by units: A is 5, B 4, C 3, D 2, and F and O (absent) are 0, with no plus or minus values. P grades, transfer credit, incompletes and dropped subjects stay out, so first-year students have no GPA until the end of the spring semester.
MIT’s points: A 5.00, B 4.00, C 3.00, D 2.00 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”.
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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 units again in the course rows.
Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
These are future units 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 MIT’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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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.
MIT’s rules checked in its MIT Course Catalog (Bulletin) 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at MIT
MIT multiplies each course’s grade points by its units, adds them up and divides by the units that count. Enter your courses above with these points already set.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology letter grades and grade points
What pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at MIT
A course left out of the GPA adds no points and no units. In the calculator, choose its code or “Not counted”; a code that counts as zero lowers the GPA like a failing grade.
How MIT counts each code
Code
What it means
In the MIT GPA
P
Pass: C− work or better. All first-year fall and IAP grades are P or No Record; later, up to 48 units can be taken Pass/No Record.
Left out until finished. If the work is not done by the next regular term’s Add Date (unless the instructor set another date), the instructor’s default final grade is posted. Rule
DR
Dropped after the fifth week (internal record only)
A repeated subject counts in the GPA each time you take it, though credit is not given twice unless the subject is repeatable for credit. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer credit carries no grade and is not included in the MIT GPA. Rule
MIT rounds the GPA to one decimal place: 4.75 becomes 4.8 and 4.74 becomes 4.7.
MIT GPA lines
These are MIT’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 MIT
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Term rating above 3.0 with at least 36 units
The minimum record the Committee on Academic Performance normally accepts each regular term
Below it, the committee reviews your record individually. It can require a higher level from a student it has notified after earlier poor performance. Full rule
Cumulative GPA of at least 3.0
Needed to keep federal student financial aid
You must also pass 67% of the units you attempt and not exceed 150% of the published length of your program. 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
First-year P grades add nothing, and the GPA is on a 5.0 scale. A 12-unit P from first-year fall, then a 12-unit A, a 12-unit B and a 9-unit C: (5 × 12 + 4 × 12 + 3 × 9) ÷ 33 = 4.09. MIT reports it to one decimal, as 4.1.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your MIT 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.
