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NYU grades on a 4.000 scale with plus and minus: A is 4.000, A− 3.667, B+ 3.333 and so on down to D at 1.000 and F at 0.000, with no A+ or D−. W, P, incompletes and NR stay out of your GPA, but if you fail a course you took pass/fail, the F counts at CAS and Stern. Your school, not the university, decides how a retake counts; at CAS and Stern both grades stay in your GPA.
NYU’s points: A 4.000, A− 3.667, B+ 3.333, B 3.000 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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Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
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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 NYU’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.
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NYU’s rules checked in its NYU Bulletins 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at NYU
NYU 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.
New York University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at NYU
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 NYU counts each code
Code
What it means
In the NYU GPA
W
Withdrew Officially: you withdrew from a class after the add/drop period
Left out of your GPA, but the class stays on your transcript with a W. Before the add/drop deadline, about two weeks into the semester, you can drop the class in Albert instead. For a full-semester class the W period starts on the first calendar day of the third week of classes, and the last day depends on the term and session. You can’t withdraw from your last class of a term. If you withdraw from every class in a term, those W’s can’t be removed later. Rule
P or F
Pass/Fail option: you choose it for a course normally graded A through F, and a passing grade shows as P
A P stays out of your GPA; failing doesn’t. At CAS, “The grade of F under the Pass/Fail option is computed in the average,” and at Stern A through D become P but “A letter grade of ‘F’ will remain an ‘F’.” Your home school sets the limits and the deadline. CAS allows one Pass/Fail option a term and 32 credits in all, none in your major, minor or College Core, requested before the end of the 14th week. Stern allows four courses in your career and one per academic year, chosen by the last day to withdraw, and the choice can’t be undone. Rule
I (also IP or IF)
Incomplete: a temporary grade when unexpected circumstances near the end of the term keep you from finishing a few requirements you could still pass
Left out of your GPA, and it earns no credit, until it’s resolved. You ask your instructor in writing before the term ends; if they agree, you file the Incomplete Grade Agreement Form, and they set the work, a deadline and a contingency grade. If no final grade comes in, an I from fall or January term lapses to the contingency grade on the last day of spring final exams, and one from spring or summer on the last day of fall finals. In extraordinary circumstances, such as serious illness or a family crisis, your advisor can tell you how your home school extends an incomplete. You can’t graduate with an unresolved I. IP (Incomplete-Passing) and IF (Incomplete-Failing) are excluded from your GPA too. Rule
NR
No Record: your instructor didn’t submit a grade within 30 days of the end of the term
Left out of your GPA and your earned credits, but it counts as attempted credits when your progress is checked for financial aid. Your professor can replace it with a final grade in Albert. You can’t graduate with an NR unless your academic dean approves a documented exception. Rule
NYU has no single retake rule. Your transcript marks the course as repeated, and your GPA and credits follow your own school’s repeat policy. At CAS, for example, you can repeat a course once and no more than two courses in all, and “both grades will be recorded on the transcript and both grades will be computed in the grade point average,” with no extra credit. Stern lets you retake a course only if you failed it or your major or minor needs a higher grade; both grades count in your GPA, and you earn the credit once. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Grades from other colleges never appear on your NYU transcript and never count in your NYU GPA. The exception is a designated exchange program: those grades are converted to NYU’s scale and do count. A course needs a C or better, taken within 10 years before you matriculate, to transfer, and you lose the transfer credit if you later take the equivalent NYU course. AP, IB and other exam credit shows on your transcript only as the test name and credits, outside your GPA; AP needs a 4, and IB a 6 on a Higher Level exam. NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai don’t award advanced standing. Rule
NYU GPA lines
These are NYU’s published undergraduate lines, each with the other conditions its catalog sets. Your college or program may set its own, higher lines.
Notice of Academic Concern: you’re out of Good Academic Standing
Each NYU school defines good academic standing and chooses which notices it uses: Notice of Academic Alert, Notice of Academic Concern, Notice of Continued Academic Concern, Required Leave, Notice of Academic Concern: Pre-Dismissal and Dismissal. Your standing for a term comes from how you did the term before. At CAS, a semester or cumulative GPA below 2.0 in any semester takes you out of Good Academic Standing; to get back you need a 2.0 semester GPA and a 2.0 cumulative GPA in the term of the notice and must complete 75% of the credits you attempted. At Stern, a cumulative GPA below 2.0 brings a Notice of Academic Concern, and a cumulative GPA of 2.0–2.25 or a semester GPA below 2.0 brings a Notice of Academic Alert, which isn’t noted on your transcript. To graduate, CAS needs a 2.0 cumulative GPA over 128 credits and a 2.0 in your major (and minor, if you have one); Stern needs a 2.0 cumulative GPA. Full rule
3.65 (CAS) or 3.667 (Stern) for the academic year
Dean’s Honors List at CAS; Dean’s List at Stern
CAS compiles its list in June: you need an average of 3.65 or higher for September to May in at least 28 graded credits, and no Incomplete or N grades when the list is made. CAS carries GPAs to three decimal places and doesn’t round them. Stern needs a 3.667 GPA or higher, at least 28 graded credits over the academic year (January term, summer and pass/fail courses don’t count), at least 12 credits at Stern in each fall and spring semester, and no missing, I or NR grades. Full rule
Top 5%, next 10% and next 15% of your school’s GPAs
Latin honors: summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude, with GPA cutoffs taken from the previous year’s graduates in your school
The cutoffs differ by school and change every year; your NYU GPA, like them, has three decimals. The Registrar’s cutoffs for Fall 2025 to Summer 2026 graduates (summa, magna, cum laude) were: CAS 3.958, 3.871, 3.765; Dental 3.900, 3.800, 3.700; Gallatin 3.962, 3.916, 3.851; Liberal Studies 3.968, 3.943, 3.879; Nursing 3.990, 3.937, 3.833; SPS 3.967, 3.899, 3.822; Silver 4.000, 3.959, 3.915; Steinhardt 3.961, 3.894, 3.818; Stern 3.917, 3.837, 3.742; Tandon 3.946, 3.821, 3.688; Tisch 3.951, 3.893, 3.813. Only courses that apply to your degree count, grades from other institutions don’t, and your program may leave out courses from other NYU schools. Each school also sets a credit minimum: CAS needs at least 64 credits in courses from CAS, GSAS and selected Tisch departments, and Stern 64 credits at NYU with letter grades A through D. NYU Abu Dhabi uses its own cutoffs. 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
A pass/fail course protects your GPA only if you pass it. Say you earn an A, an A− and a B+ in three 4-credit courses and fail a 4-credit course you took pass/fail. At CAS “The grade of F under the Pass/Fail option is computed in the average,” so: (4.000 × 4 + 3.667 × 4 + 3.333 × 4 + 0.000 × 4) ÷ 16 = 2.75. Pass it, and the P stays out: (4.000 × 4 + 3.667 × 4 + 3.333 × 4) ÷ 12 = 3.67.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your NYU 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.
