GPA with honors and AP courses weighted by the bonus your school sets
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.A weighted GPA adds points for harder courses, which is why a transcript can show 4.3 on a four-point scale. How much it adds is decided by the school and nobody else: half a point for honors and a full point for AP is common, but plenty of schools weight AP by half, and some weight nothing at all. Set the bonus your school publishes and the maximum moves with it.
The page opens with "Weight honors and AP courses" switched on.
Set the Honors bonus and AP / IB bonus to the points your school adds.
Enter each course with its Grade, Credit hours and Level.
Read the Weighted term GPA and check each course's bonus in The working.
Two numbers decide an American GPA, and only two: the grade points of each course and the credit hours it carried. Multiply them for every course to get quality points, add them up, and divide by the total credit hours. A three-hour B and a four-hour A come to 25 quality points over 7 hours, which is 3.57 and not the 3.50 you get by averaging 3.0 and 4.0. That gap is the reason this page exists.
Weighting is the same story. An honors course typically adds half a point and an AP, IB or dual enrolment course a full one, which is how a transcript ends up showing 4.3 on a four-point scale. Typically is doing a lot of work in that sentence: plenty of schools weight AP by half a point and some weight nothing. Both bonuses are boxes on this page, so the figure you get is the figure your school would print.
Latin honors thresholds are deliberately not shown. Cum laude, magna and summa are set by each institution and are often decided by class rank rather than a fixed GPA, so any number printed here would be a guess about your school.
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Credit hours weight every course. A four-hour class counts a third more than a three-hour one, so a strong grade in a heavy course lifts the figure further than the same grade in a one-hour elective. Averaging the letters ignores that and usually gives a number a little too round to be real.
Both, depending on the school. Most American universities cap the scale at 4.0 and treat A+ and A identically; some award 4.3 for an A+, which lets an unweighted GPA pass 4.00. Pick the table printed in your own catalogue, because no calculator can know which one applies to you.
Half a point for honors and a full point for AP, IB or dual enrolment is the commonest arrangement, but the school decides. Some weight AP by half a point, some weight nothing. Both bonuses are editable here, so the weighted figure matches the transcript your school will actually issue.
Enter the GPA you have, the credit hours behind it, the hours still to take and the target. The answer is the average those remaining hours must carry. Where that average is higher than the best grade your school awards, the page says the target is out of reach instead of printing a number above the scale.
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