<p>For example, if your major requires 6 upper division courses but you've taken 7, how do you calculate your major GPA? Do you still have to use all 7 classes or use the 6 classes with the highest grades?</p>
<p>Also, is major GPA shown on your diploma or final transcript?</p>
<p>To the original post: I believe if you are applying to graduate schools, then your “major GPA” is the GPA for the courses in the major pertaining to your graduate study. For example, someone applying to physics graduate school would include precisely the physics department coursework.</p>
<p>However, for departmental honors and things like that, typically major GPA is precisely the coursework taken in the department for the major <em>that you designate you’re using to fulfill your requirements</em> – meaning yes, if you have satisfied each of them with high grades and have extraneous coursework, then you can choose which coursework you use. It makes sense too, because one shouldn’t be deprived of honors because one engaged in extra forays into interesting material, given honors are purely numerically based. With grad schools, of course, forays into exciting material can only help as long as one put in some work into them. I do not include professional schools in the category of grad school here.</p>
<p>i think upper div major gpa is a very key factor too.</p>
<p>Use the 6 classes with the highest grades.</p>
<p>to calculate major gpa: does this include lower-div pre-reqs or just upper divs?
thanks!</p>
<p>I Believe you use lower divs and upper divs…</p>