Can you calculate my cGPA for me? (Yeah, seriously.)

Graduate School
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<p>Okay, I have to apologize in advance because I know that this is the stupidest question and most of you will just scoff at me, but I have calculated my cGPA so many times and I simply come up with different answers every time. I've been using an excel spreadsheet to keep up on my marks but I think I might have coded it improperly and I cannot for the life of me find the error.</p>

<p>So I would be eternally grateful if someone could take my marks which, in my school are calculated on a 12-point scale but uses letters, and tell me what it would be on a 4.00 scale. OR, since I realize this is annoying for someone else to have to do, if someone could explicitly tell me once and for all how to convert the letter-grading-4.33 scale to 4.00, then that would be helpful too. (I know this is heavily discussed elsewhere on the site, but honestly it just confuses me more.)</p>

<p>I am in 3rd year (2 and a half, really) and my first year credits were atrocious, so this is a doubly humiliating for me, but I would really appreciate it if someone could help me so that I stop pulling my hair out trying to figure out if I'll ever get into grad school.</p>

<p>Full credit (one-year) courses - my first year, no less:</p>

<p>C+
B-
B-
B+
B-</p>

<p>Half-credit (full-year) courses - 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year classes:</p>

<p>A-
A-
A-
B+
A-
A
A-
A+
A
A+
A+
A+</p>

<p>Half the time I keep coming up with 3.0455, and occasionally I manage to get 3.318. Am I delusional or what? </p>

<p>(For the record, I'm at a Canadian university but lived in France forever so this whole marking system is just so different to me and I'm having trouble grasping it.)</p>

<p>Thank you in advance for even reading this, and to anyone who has the patience to help me.</p>

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<p>use this [GPA</a> calculator](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology/student_resources/gpa_calculator.html]GPA”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology/student_resources/gpa_calculator.html)</p>

<p>although, i don’t think you’re suppose to do the conversion from one grading system to another, right?</p>

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<p>Based on a UofT system, your cGPA is: 3.33</p>

<p>2.3
2.7
2.7
3.3
2.7
= 13.7</p>

<p>1.85
1.85
1.85
1.65
1.85
2.0
1.85
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
= 22.9</p>

<p>11 full-credit courses total
cGPA (again, based on UofT grading system) = 3.33
Where:
A/A+ = 4.0 (85+)
A- = 3.7 (80-84)
B+ = 3.3 (77-79)
B = 3.0 (73-76)
B- = 2.7 (70-72)
C+ = 2.3 (67-69)</p>

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<p>Oh, thank you so much both of you. Interestingly, the Stanford form gave me a 3.39 and not a 3.33, but as long as I’m getting somewhere above a 3.3 then I am happy. This is the minimum requirement at LSE for Canadian students and it is where I plan to apply for graduate studies. While I know it’s clearly not a competitive cGPA at the moment, with another 1.5 years of classes to go to raise my average + the fact that I have extensive international work experience, I feel much less miserable about my chances now. I was so worried that I might only have a 3.0 and it would be much harder to make the 3.3 minimum in less than 2 years.</p>

<p>Safetypin, I had been calculating the half credit scores improperly all this time, and the U of T conversion coincides with my school’s system perfectly. This makes a lot more sense. Thank you so much.</p>

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<p>Does your school give more points for an A+? If so, use the higher GPA clculated using the first form. If your school counts A+ and A the same, use the second system.</p>