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The University of Arizona uses whole letter grades: A is 4, B 3, C 2, D 1 and E 0, with no plus or minus (only the law school’s J.D. courses have them). Since fall 2025 a retaken undergraduate course counts only its highest grade. Pass/fail, W, audit and transfer grades stay out of the GPA.
UArizona’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
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 UArizona’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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Course
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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.
The University of Arizona’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 University of Arizona Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at the University of Arizona
The University of Arizona 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.
University of Arizona letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at the University of Arizona
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 the University of Arizona counts each code
Code
What it means
In the University of Arizona GPA
W
Withdrawal: you dropped the course after the drop deadline
Left out of your GPA, though it stays on your record and counts as one of your attempts at the course. Rule
WC
Complete withdrawal from the university for the term
Pass or Fail under the pass/fail option; for undergraduates a P is work of a D or better
Left out of your GPA, a Fail as much as a Pass. You can use the option for up to 12 courses in all, never for general education, major, minor or other required courses. Rule
S
Superior, with P and F the usual grades for individual studies courses
Incomplete: all but a minor part of the work is done and circumstances keep you from finishing
Left out of your GPA until you finish; then the new grade counts. If it isn’t removed by the last day of finals one year later, it turns into a failing grade, unless your instructor and your college’s dean grant one more year first. Rule
Missing grade: your instructor hasn’t submitted a grade yet
Nothing counts until a grade is submitted: only regular grades are in the GPA. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
For a course retaken from fall 2025, your GPA counts only your highest grade, A to E, and you earn the credit once. Every attempt stays on your record, and competitive majors and graduate programs may look at them all. You can attempt a course at most three times (a drop after the deadline counts), and a course you passed with an A or B can’t be retaken. A retake that ends in a P, W, I or other non-letter grade leaves your earlier grade in the GPA, and a grade from credit by exam stays whatever a retake earns. In a course the catalog marks repeatable for credit, a second try after a C or D earns more credit and both grades count, unless you petition to keep only the higher one. Retakes before fall 2025 follow the 2024–2025 catalog. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Grades transferred from another college or university stay out of your University of Arizona GPA. Transfer schools, graduate schools and competitive scholarships may use their own formula that counts all of your grades, including those this GPA leaves out. Rule
The University of Arizona GPA lines
These are the University of Arizona’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 the University of Arizona
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.00 for the semester, with 2.00 or above cumulative
Academic Review, still good standing
Your college or school contacts you to see whether you need help raising your GPA. Full rule
Below 2.00 cumulative at the end of a fall or spring semester
Academic Warning
You stay Eligible, the normal status, while your cumulative GPA is 2.00 or higher. On Warning you can still enroll, but your college or school contacts you and you must complete an intervention. A 2.00 cumulative at the end of your next term takes you back to Eligible. Full rule
Still below 2.00 cumulative after a term that began on Warning
Academic Probation
You can still enroll, but you must take part in an intervention your college or school runs with the university. A 2.00 cumulative at the end of your next term takes you back to Eligible. Full rule
Still below 2.00 cumulative after a term that began on Probation
Ineligible: you can’t enroll in courses
You can appeal, usually for extenuating circumstances, for one more term on Academic Probation, with conditions such as taking fewer units. Winter or summer grades that lift your cumulative GPA to 2.00 take you back to Eligible from any of these statuses. Full rule
3.500 to 3.999 for the term, on at least 12 units of letter grades
Dean’s List (6 units for half time)
A 4.000 term earns Dean’s List with Distinction. S, P and F grades and unfinished incompletes don’t count toward the units. Full rule
3.500, 3.700 or 3.900 cumulative at graduation
Cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude
Latin honors need at least 45 graded units of University Credit at the University of Arizona. 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 from fall 2025 counts only its best grade: a 3-unit C retaken for an A leaves just the A in your GPA. Beside a 3-unit B, that is (4 × 3 + 3 × 3) ÷ 6 = 3.50, where counting both attempts would have given (4 × 3 + 2 × 3 + 3 × 3) ÷ 9 = 3.00.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your University of Arizona 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.
