Quick question about GPA my school doesn’t list GPA on our grades website for some reason I have to request for a transcript in order to just see my own GPA
Here is what my GPA was
Freshman Year was a Semester 1 3.46 and a 4 Semester 2
Sophomore Year Semester 1 4.14 Semester 2 4.43
Junior Year Semester 1 4.57 Semester 2 4.57
Senior Year Semester 1 4.6
My GC my Frosh+ Sophomore GPA was a 4.18 but when I add up 3.46 plus 4 plus 4.14 plus 4.43 and divide by 4 it comes out as a 4.0075. Am I doing this wrong? My GC said my GPA is calculated by adding 3.46 and 4 then dividing by 2 then adding 4.14 then dividing by 2 then adding 4.43 and dividing by 2. My GC tends to get things wrong quite often so who is doing this correctly?
@NYUPlox adding up the four numbers and dividing by 4 (as you did) might not always work, particularly if you took a different number of courses/units in different semesters.
Usually, you can compute your GPA by taking the weighted averages over all the courses you have taken, where the weights are the number of units each course is worth.
@MITer94 Okay I see. So here are my grades in terms of weighted values:
Freshman Year (11 Semesters Worth of Classes):
4 plus 4 plus 3 plus 3 plus 3
5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 3
I get 41
Sophomore Year (12 Semesters Worth of Classes):
5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4
5 plus 5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4
I get 51
Junior Year (16 Semesters Worth of Classes):
5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4
5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4
I get 74
Senior Year: (5 Semesters Worth of Classes haven’t gotten S2 grades back obviously)
5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 4
I get 24
when I add all these numbers up it totals to 190, when I add up all the classes I took I get 44 semesters worth.
190/44 = 4.32 total GPA. Did I do this correctly?
Are they all the same number of credits? None were half semester courses?
@“Erin’s Dad” Yes other than Health I took in Freshman year, but yeah same number of credits.
You are following the process correctly. The one you attribute to your GC is not. When I use your Fresh and Soph info from post #2 I get a 4.0 (not a 4.0075) for those two years so I don’t know what you have different.