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UVU grades on a plus/minus 4.0 scale where a plus adds 0.4: an A is 4.0, an A− 3.7, a B+ 3.4, a C+ 2.4 and a D+ 1.4, down to a D− at 0.7 and an E (failing) at 0.0. Retake a course and only your highest grade counts in your GPA, with the other attempts marked E for excluded on your transcript. W, I, audit and credit/no credit grades don’t count, but an I you don’t make up within a year becomes an E.
UVU’s points: A 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.40, 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”.
Your class cutoffs
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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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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 UVU’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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UVU’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Academic Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UVU
UVU 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.
Utah Valley University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UVU
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 UVU counts each code
Code
What it means
In the UVU GPA
A−, B+ … D−
Plus and minus grades
A plus is worth 0.4 more than the letter and a minus 0.3 less: B+ 3.4, C+ 2.4 and D+ 1.4; A− 3.7, B− 2.7, C− 1.7 and D− 0.7. There’s no A+. Your GPA is your grade points divided by the semester hours you attempted. Rule
E
Failing: inadequate mastery or repeated absences
Counts 0.0, with its hours, in your GPA. An I you don’t make up within a year turns into an E. Don’t confuse it with the E printed beside a retaken course on your transcript: that one means the attempt is excluded from your GPA (an I there means included). Rule
UW
Unofficial withdrawal: you failed for not attending, without withdrawing (given until fall 2024)
Counts 0.0, like an E. UVU stopped giving UW grades in fall 2024, but older transcripts can show them. Now, if you stop going to class without withdrawing, you may get a failing grade instead. Rule
W
Official withdrawal after the drop deadline
Not computed in your GPA. A class you drop by the drop deadline doesn’t appear on your transcript; after it, a withdrawal shows as a W with no refund. Withdrawing after the withdrawal deadline takes a petition with documented extenuating circumstances beyond your control. Rule
I
Incomplete: your instructor agreed to give you time after the semester to finish
Not computed in your GPA. You must make it up within one year, or it becomes an E. You can’t finish an incomplete by retaking the course: to retake instead, you accept the grade you earned and the highest grade counts. Resolve any I before you graduate. Rule
Neither is computed in your GPA. Credit by exam (AP, CLEP, DSST, IB) and credit for prior learning are recorded as CR, so they stay out of your GPA too. Rule
Doesn’t count toward your GPA. Resolve it before you graduate. Rule
A grade with R added
A record adjustment or academic renewal
An R added to a grade takes it out of your GPA, though the original grade stays on your transcript. A record adjustment, for documented extenuating circumstances beyond your control, applies only to E, UW and W grades. Academic renewal removes one whole semester of undergraduate work from your earned credits and cumulative GPA (not single courses, and not work used toward a credential you already hold); you can use it once, and then you can’t receive academic honors. Financial aid still uses the original grades. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
You can retake a course to earn a better grade, registering and paying as usual. Only the highest grade counts in your GPA; every other attempt is excluded, and all attempts stay on your transcript marked E (excluded) or I (included). You get no additional credit for repeating a course you passed unless its number ends in R or Z (repeatable for credit). A class you withdrew from isn’t posted as a repeat. Under Policy 522 (effective March 20, 2025), a course you retake at another school can be accepted as the repeat of your UVU course: transfer grades don’t count in your GPA, but if the transfer grade is your highest, your UVU attempts are excluded from your GPA. A course repeated more than once is charged at the full cost of instruction unless the repeat is for a cause beyond your control or your program prescribes it. Other schools may count your excluded grades. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer courses numbered 1000 or above with a D− or higher earn credit at UVU, but transferred grades aren’t calculated in your UVU GPA, including courses from international schools. Courses from a quarter-system school convert to semester hours at three to two. There’s no limit on transfer credit, but you still need UVU’s residency hours, total credits and GPA to graduate. A higher grade earned elsewhere in a course you took at UVU takes your UVU attempts out of your GPA (see the retake rule). Rule
UVU GPA lines
These are UVU’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 UVU
GPA line
What it means
Also required
2.0 semester and cumulative
Good academic standing
Your standing is set by the grades you earn at UVU, judged on your most recent semester GPA and your cumulative GPA. Your major may set higher requirements. Full rule
Below 2.0 semester, with 2.0 or above cumulative
Academic warning
A registration hold stays until you complete an academic success warning workshop and meet your academic advisor. Full rule
Below 2.0 semester and cumulative
Academic notice
A registration hold stays until you complete an academic notice workshop, develop an academic success plan and meet your advisor. Full rule
Cumulative still below 2.0 the next semester
Continued academic notice
You prepare a success plan with your advisor and the academic standards counselor, and you must turn in an in-progress grade report to register for later semesters. Full rule
Below 2.0 semester and cumulative while on continued notice
Academic suspension
You’re dropped from your current classes and suspended for at least one full semester; to return you petition for review. Back on notice, you need a 2.0 semester GPA every semester until your cumulative GPA is 2.0. Full rule
Missing the conditions after a suspension
Academic dismissal
You can’t re-enroll or petition for at least one calendar year, and you may be required to complete 18 credits at another school with at least a 2.5 GPA. Policy 613, effective June 16, 2011, last reviewed July 1, 2024. Full rule
2.0 cumulative
Minimum GPA to graduate
Some programs require a higher GPA or won’t accept course grades below a C. Full rule
3.6 semester GPA
Dean’s list
You must complete 12 semester hours or more that semester and have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. Full rule
3.60 / 3.80 / 3.90 cumulative
Cum laude / magna cum laude / summa cum laude (bachelor’s degrees)
Based only on your cumulative GPA, with at least 30 hours completed for a bachelor’s degree. Associate degrees: Honors at 3.60 and High Honors at 3.80, with at least 20 hours. Not open to students granted academic renewal. 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 highest attempt counts, and a B+ is worth 3.4. Say you earn an A− and a B+ in two 3-credit courses and an E in a 4-credit course, then retake that course and earn a C. The C replaces the E in your GPA: (3.7 × 3 + 3.4 × 3 + 2.0 × 4) ÷ 10 = 29.3 ÷ 10 = 2.93. Counting both attempts would have given (3.7 × 3 + 3.4 × 3 + 0.0 × 4 + 2.0 × 4) ÷ 14 = 29.3 ÷ 14 = 2.09.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UVU 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.
