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GPA questions, answered

Short answers to the questions that come after the number itself, from the rules schools and agencies publish. Each links to the full answer and to the calculator that works it out for your own grades.

Does a GPA round up?

Only if your school says so. Schools decide how many decimals a GPA keeps and whether the last one is rounded or cut. The University of Florida cuts its Dean’s List GPA to two decimals and never rounds up, so a 3.495 counts as 3.49 and misses a 3.50 line. MIT rounds instead: its 5.0-scale GPA keeps one decimal, so a 4.75 becomes 4.8.

When a form or a résumé asks for your GPA, copy it the way your transcript shows it, with the same decimals; a 3.46 written as 3.5 is a different number. The GPA calculator shows two decimals and keeps the full quality points behind them. Whether an 89.5% course grade becomes an A is a separate rule, covered under grading scale rounding.

What GPA do honors lists and good standing need?

Each college sets its own lines, and they read different GPAs. Semester lists, such as a Dean’s List, read one term: at the University of Florida the line runs from 3.20 in Engineering to 3.75 in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and UT Austin’s University Honors list asks for 3.50. Graduation honors read the cumulative GPA: UT Austin’s lowest line is 3.30, each of its colleges can set a higher one, and no more than a fifth of a college’s May graduates receive honors.

At the other end, UT Austin places students on academic warning when the cumulative GPA falls below 2.00. Every list also has conditions besides the GPA, such as a minimum number of graded credits. The GPA calculator’s table of published lines lists them, and what counts as a good GPA sets them beside the national average.

What GPA keeps federal financial aid?

Federal grants, loans and work-study require satisfactory academic progress, and your school’s written policy defines it. Federal rules make that policy set a GPA for each review and, in programs longer than two years, require at least a C average, or standing consistent with graduating, by the end of the second academic year.

The same policy says how many of your attempted credits you must complete, how incompletes, withdrawals and retakes count, whether you can appeal and how to regain aid. Your financial aid office or the school’s website has it. State grants and private awards set their own minimums. To check your pace and maximum timeframe against your school’s numbers, use the SAP calculator.

How do medical and law schools read my GPA?

They read a GPA their application service calculates from every transcript, which can differ from your school’s. AMCAS, for medical schools, counts every attempt of a retaken course and every failed course even when your school leaves them out, gives an A+ the same 4.0 as an A, and asks for the original grade of a course your school forgave. LSAC, for law schools, converts an A+ to 4.33 and counts every repeated or forgiven grade that still appears on your transcript. Work them out with the AMCAS GPA calculator and the LSAC GPA calculator; for physician assistant programs, the CASPA GPA calculator, which also counts every attempt.

Undergraduate admissions offices may also recalculate a high school GPA, for example without Honors and AP points. On a job application or résumé, give the GPA your transcript shows, on its scale, and say whether it is cumulative or for your major.

My GPA is low. What can change it?

Grades already on your record usually stay in it. At UT Austin and the University of Florida every attempt of a retaken course counts, so a retake adds a new grade beside the old one; some schools replace the earlier grade or offer academic renewal, and your catalog says which. Medical and law school application services usually count the original grade too: AMCAS asks for every attempt, and LSAC counts an earlier attempt while its grade and credits still show on your transcript.

What moves a GPA is new credits, and the arithmetic is worth seeing before you plan. From a 1.8 after 30 credits, 3 credits of A’s reach a 2.0; from a 1.2 it takes 12. Each GPA page shows the credits it takes, such as 1.8, 2.0 or 2.5, and the target planner works from your own record. If financial aid is at stake, ask your aid office about an appeal and an academic plan.

Who can see my grades?

A federal law, FERPA, gives parents the right to see a student’s education records, to ask for corrections and some control over who else sees them. Those rights pass to the student at 18, or as soon as the student enrolls in college at any age. This is a summary of the law, not legal advice; your school’s records office explains how it applies there.

The calculators on this site work out your grades in your browser: grades are never added to page addresses or sent to analytics, and keeping them on your device is your choice. The privacy page has the details.

Sources: University of Florida, Academic honors (Undergraduate catalog 2026–2027, checked September 27, 2026); UT Austin, Honors (Catalog 2026–2027, checked September 27, 2026); UT Austin, Academic warning and dismissal (Catalog 2026–2027, checked September 27, 2026); UT Austin, Grade point average computation (Catalog 2026–2027, checked September 27, 2026); University of Florida, Grades and grading policies (Undergraduate catalog 2026–2027, checked September 27, 2026); MIT Registrar, Calculating GPA (checked October 11, 2026); US Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 668.34, Satisfactory academic progress (checked October 11, 2026); Federal Student Aid, Staying eligible (checked October 11, 2026); AAMC, Grades factored into AMCAS GPA calculations (checked October 11, 2026); LSAC, Transcript summarization (checked October 11, 2026); US Department of Education, What is FERPA? (checked October 11, 2026).