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Nebraska uses plus and minus grades in thirds: A+ and A are both 4.00, A− is 3.67, B+ 3.33, and so on down to D− at 0.67 and F at 0. A retake automatically takes an earlier C− or lower out of your GPA, and only your most recent grade counts, even if it’s lower; P, N, W and incompletes stay out of your GPA.
UNL’s points: A+ 4.00, A 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33 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 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 UNL’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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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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Nebraska’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Nebraska
Nebraska 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.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Nebraska
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 Nebraska counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Nebraska GPA
P or N
Pass/No Pass: P for a C or better, N for a C− or lower
Left out of your GPA. You can switch to or from Pass/No Pass until mid-term. At most 24 Pass credit hours count, and your college or major may allow fewer. Pass/No Pass can’t be used on a retake meant to replace a grade. Rule
I
Incomplete: you’ve substantially finished the course but can’t complete it that term because of illness, military service, hardship or a death in the family
Left out of your GPA while it stands. Don’t re-register; finish the work with your instructor. If the deadline on the instructor’s I-Form passes, you get the grade set on that form; without a form, the I becomes an F after one year. Rule
W
Dropped or withdrew from the course
Left out of your GPA. Not attending isn’t an official drop: you must drop or withdraw in MyRED or with a form. Rule
A retake removes an earlier C−, D+, D, D− or F from your GPA: only your most recent grade counts, even if it’s lower, and the earlier grade stays on your transcript. A C or better can’t be replaced; if you take a course more than twice and earn a C or better, only the earlier grades below C drop out. The retake must be the same course for the same or more credit hours, at UNL or another University of Nebraska campus, and must end in a letter grade (not P, N, I, W or NR). A course no longer offered can’t be replaced, and the policy doesn’t cover courses taken after you graduate. UNL retakes are processed automatically; retakes at UNK, UNMC or UNO and cross-listed courses need an Undergraduate Course Repeat Re-Computation Request. Academic Bankruptcy can take one or two whole semesters out of your GPA once you’ve later earned 15 hours at 3.0 or 30 hours at 2.5 at UNL. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Grades from colleges outside the University of Nebraska system are used for admission but never become part of your GPA. Academic standing uses your NU cumulative GPA. Rule
Your GPA is rounded to three decimal places (the thousandths).
Nebraska GPA lines
These are Nebraska’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 Nebraska
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 term or cumulative GPA
Initial Academic Warning
A hold goes on your future registration. To clear it, finish a semester with both your semester and cumulative GPA above 2.00. Two semesters in a row below 2.0 bring Academic Warning Before Dismissal, and three in a row bring dismissal. Full rule
Cumulative GPA below 1.00 (1–18 attempted hours), or term and cumulative GPA both below 1.75 (19–45 hours) or 2.0 (46 hours or more)
Academic Dismissal
The 1.00 rule applies once you’ve attended UNL, UNO or UNK for more than one semester; the 1.75 and 2.0 rules apply when your cumulative GPA was already below 2.0. Attempted hours are all the hours you didn’t drop in the first two weeks. Your next semester’s registration is cancelled, you can’t enroll for at least two semesters in a row (the four summer sessions count as one), and readmission isn’t automatic. Full rule
3.700 semester GPA or higher (College of Arts and Sciences)
Dean’s List
At least 12 credit hours of graded coursework that semester; Pass/No Pass hours, transfer hours, finished incompletes and late grade changes don’t count toward the 12. Fall and spring only. Part-time students with 6 to 11 hours and a 3.700 make the Dean’s Commendation List. Each college sets its own criteria. Full rule
3.850 or higher cumulative UNL GPA (College of Arts and Sciences)
Degree with Distinction (3.850 to 3.919) or High Distinction (3.920 or higher) without a thesis
Your GPA at the end of the term before you graduate, with your last 48 hours taken as a declared Arts and Sciences major; High Distinction also needs 60 hours at UNL. Highest Distinction requires a thesis. More than 9 Pass/No Pass hours lowers the level, and retakes that removed grades limit it: none for Highest Distinction, one at most for the others. Full rule
4.0 in all college work
Chancellor’s Scholar
An A in every graded course at UNL and at other colleges, and a P in every Pass/No Pass class, with at least 42 graded hours at UNL by the end of fall semester of your graduation year. 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
Only your most recent grade counts, even if it’s lower. A 3-credit D retaken for an F, plus a 3-credit B: the D drops out and the F counts, (0.00 × 3 + 3.00 × 3) ÷ 6 = 1.50. Had you not retaken it, the D would have kept you at (1.00 × 3 + 3.00 × 3) ÷ 6 = 2.00.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Nebraska 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.
