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TCU uses plus and minus grades: A is 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33, and so on down to D− at 0.67 and F at 0, with no A+. A retake counts only your last letter grade, even a lower one, and W, P/NC, incompletes and audits stay out of your GPA.
TCU’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”.
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Rounding and decimal places
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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 TCU’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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TCU’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at TCU
TCU 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.
Texas Christian University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at TCU
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 TCU counts each code
Code
What it means
In the TCU GPA
W
Withdrew: you dropped the course after the 12th class day and by the 70% point of the semester
Left out of your GPA. A drop through the 12th class day leaves no grade at all. Just stopping going to class isn’t a drop. Rule
AW
Administrative Withdrawal: given by your associate dean for an unusual hardship after the last day to withdraw
A non-grade mark, like W. It covers all your courses that semester, not a single class, and doing poorly in a course isn’t a reason for one. Rule
P or NC
Pass/No-Credit, which you choose: P means C− or better, NC means D+ or lower
Left out of your GPA. P earns credit hours; NC earns none. You can take up to two courses (8 hours at most) this way, none for your major or minor. The last day to choose is the 90% point of the semester, and after that you can’t switch back. A P/NC course can’t replace an earlier grade. Rule
I
Incomplete: you missed no more than four weeks of work, passed at least half the course and have a documented reason
A non-punitive grade, so it adds no points while it stands. You and your instructor set a finish date in writing, no later than 60 days after the start of the next full semester. If the work isn’t done by then, it turns into an F, which counts as 0. Rule
U
Unsatisfactory: your progress in a course that semester is unsatisfactory
Left out of your GPA and doesn’t appear on your transcript. It earns no credit hours. Rule
AU
Audit: you attend a class without credit
No grade and no credit, so it stays out of your GPA. AU shows on your transcript only if the instructor confirms you attended. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
When you retake a TCU course at TCU, only your last letter grade counts in your GPA, even if it’s lower than the first. Every attempt stays on your transcript, and the course earns credit only once. You must tell the Office of the Registrar that you repeated it. If either attempt was at another school, only the TCU grade counts. A retake taken P/NC replaces nothing. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Your GPA counts only work attempted at TCU. Transfer hours count toward your degree but not your GPA, and nothing below a C− transfers. Once you’re enrolled, you can transfer at most four classes (16 hours), study abroad aside. AP, CLEP, IB and other exam credit has no letter grade and stays out of your GPA. Grades from TCU-run study abroad programs (“TCU in” programs) do count. Rule
TCU GPA lines
These are TCU’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 TCU
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.00 cumulative TCU GPA
Academic notice, then academic warning
After your first semester, a cumulative GPA below 2.00 brings academic notice; it isn’t on your transcript and happens only once. Below 2.00 at the end of any later semester brings academic warning, which is on your transcript; you can still enroll. You need a 2.00 overall, in your major department and in your minor to graduate. The Registrar’s policy page still uses the older word probation. Full rule
Below 2.00 cumulative again, after a warning
Academic suspension, then dismissal
Suspension lasts a semester or a full year, at your dean’s discretion; a second one lasts at least a year. When you come back, you’re on warning. If you’ve been suspended twice and fall below 2.00 again, dismissal is final. Full rule
Fall and spring only, with at least 12 earned hours that semester; I and P grades don’t count toward the 12. A 4.0 (all A’s) on the same terms makes you a TCU Scholar. Full rule
3.5 or higher cumulative at graduation
Graduation honors: cum laude 3.5, magna cum laude 3.7, summa cum laude 3.9
Only your TCU GPA counts, and you need at least 45 hours earned at TCU, not counting credit by exam. 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 retake can lower your GPA. You earn a C in a 4-hour Calculus course, retake it and get a D+. Only the last grade counts, so with a 3-hour A and a 3-hour B+: (1.33 × 4 + 4.00 × 3 + 3.33 × 3) ÷ 10 = 2.73. Your first C would have given (2.00 × 4 + 4.00 × 3 + 3.33 × 3) ÷ 10 = 3.00.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your TCU 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.
