<p>In high school we just averaged our yearly GPA's for our four years; each year was weighed equally. How does GPA work in college (Cumulative GPA). Do they average the GPA's of all the semesters together? I am taking more credits in the spring semester so will that semester be weighed more? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah, most colleges will weight everything according the the amounts of hours.</p>
<p>Very basic average everything.</p>
<p>As I understand it, they average every grade together, not semesters. Each class is weighted equally (or maybe according to the # of credits it is?).</p>
<p>At my college every class is weighted by the number credits it is worth. It doesn't matter which semester you take it in.</p>
<p>take the # of credit hours in your course and multiply by the grade you received in the course (on the 4.0 scale). do that for all your classes. that result should give you the total grade point. then divide the total grade point by the total number of credit hours taken. that gives you your GPA.</p>
<p>so if you want to know the gpa for one school year, just focus on that one school year. if you want to focus on your entire college career, then add up all your credit hours and grades. if you want it for one semester, just do it for one semester.</p>
<p>what makes it screwy is the letter grade system. that may vary from school to school. so converting the letter grade to the 4.0 scale system may not work the same your school as it works as my school for example.</p>
<p>it's a weighted average... for instance, you take:</p>
<p>Chemistry I (3 credits) = B (3.0)
Chemistry I Lab (1 credit) = A (4.0)</p>
<p>your GPA = [(3 x 3.0) + (1 x 4.0)] / 4 = 3.25</p>
<p>divide by 4 b/c it's the total number of credits you took.</p>
<p>If you take 12 credits in Semester 1 and get a 4.0, and 18 credits in Semester 2 and get a 3.0, you do NOT have a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Grade Point Average is computed per credit hour, excluding courses taken pass/fail.</p>
<p>A/A+ = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, etc</p>
<p>some schools give .66 for minuses and .33 for pluses, though it probably doesn't make a significant difference</p>
<p>THANK YOU! I have been trying to explain this to my daughter and she thinks she is doing so well with her GPA because she has A’s in all (3) of her 1 credit classes, but has 2 F’s and 1 D in her 3 unit classes. I have saved your post!</p>