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UC San Diego’s GPA divides grade points by the units of letter-graded courses: A+ and A are both 4.0, A− 3.7, B+ 3.3 and so on down to F at 0, with no D+ or D−. Courses graded I, IP, P, NP, S, U or W stay out.
UCSD’s points: A+ 4.00, A 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.30 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
Letter
Lowest %
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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.
Example courses. Change them to yours, or
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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 UCSD’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.
UC San Diego’s rules checked in its General Catalog 2026–27. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UC San Diego
UC San Diego 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 California San Diego letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UC San Diego
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.
Left out of the GPA. No more than 25 percent of your UC San Diego units can be P/NP, apart from 199 independent study. Rule
I
Incomplete
Left out of the GPA, except that you need an overall 2.0 on all UC work at graduation. Re-enrolling in the course instead of finishing the work lets the I lapse to a permanent F, NP or U. Rule
IP
In progress (a course sequence)
Left out while in progress, but counted as attempted when checking the 2.0 needed to graduate. Rule
For the first 16 units you repeat after a D, F or NP, the earlier grade leaves the GPA; both grades stay on the transcript, and if academic dishonesty was involved both attempts count. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
The GPA covers courses taken at any University of California campus, but not UC San Diego Extension courses or most transfer work from other schools. Rule
For Latin honors, the cumulative GPA is calculated to three decimals without rounding, and no exceptions are made for students just under a cutoff. So the calculator never rounds up either: it cuts the GPA to two decimals, and 3.499 shows as 3.49, not 3.50.
UC San Diego GPA lines
These are UC San Diego’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 UC San Diego
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0
Academic notice
Either the term GPA or the cumulative GPA below 2.0 puts you on notice. A term GPA below 1.5, or two terms in a row on notice without reaching a 2.0 cumulative, makes you subject to disqualification. Full rule
3.5 in a quarter
Provost’s Honors for that quarter
You need at least twelve graded units that quarter and no D, F or NP. Full rule
Top 14 percent by GPA (3.888 or higher for 2026–27)
Latin honors at graduation
Generally the top 2 percent get summa cum laude, the next 4 percent magna cum laude and the next 8 percent cum laude. The Fall 2026 – Summer 2027 cutoffs are 3.888 (cum laude), 3.959 (magna) and 3.991 (summa). You need letter grades in at least 72 quarter-units of UC coursework. 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 after a D, F or NP drops the earlier grade, within the first 16 repeated units. A 4-unit F retaken for a B, plus a 4-unit A: the F leaves the GPA, so (3.0 × 4 + 4.0 × 4) ÷ 8 = 3.50. With the F still counted it would be 2.33.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UC San Diego 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.
