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GPA Caculators

Overall GPA Calculator     Work with your overall GPA	Or	Major / Minor GPA Calculator Work with a subset of your courses relevant to your major/minor
Both will calculate what you would need to acheive in your current courses to reach a certain GPA.   This will also allow you to see how retaking courses under the F to R Policy can lower the GPA required to achieve your goal.

Overview of the GPA Calculators

    Your Transcript is Required

To use the GPA calculators you will need a copy of your student transcript from Records or a copy of your MyNU transcript.  If you have previously failed a course at NU and are using your MyNU transcript you will must calculate your attempted credits using the following formula.  If you haven't failed a course at NU you may substitute the "earned credits."

MyNU Conversion Formula:  Attempted credits = "Total Grade Points" / "Cumulative GPA".

    Grading Formulas

For each grade on your transcript the quality points are calculated by the following formulas. 

Overall Formulas

• GPA/QPA = Quality Points / Attempted credits
• Quality Points = GPA x Attempted credits
• Attempted credits = Quality Points / GPA

Individual Grade Formulas

Grade Value	x	Attempted Credits	=	Quality Points
3.66 (A-)	x	3	=	11

Grading Chart:

3 credit A+:   3 x 4.33 = 12.99 quality points - Greatly Boosts GPA

3 credit A:   3 x 4.0 = 12 quality points - Greatly Boosts GPA

3 credit A-:   3 x 3.66 = 10.98 quality points - Boosts GPA

3 credit B+:   3 x 3.33 = 9.99 quality points - Boosts GPA

3 credit B:   3 x 3.0 = 9 quality points - Boosts GPA

3 credit B-:   3 x 2.66 = 7.98 quality points - Boosts GPA

3 credit C+:   3 x 2.33 = 6.99 quality points - Boosts GPA

3 credit C:   3 x 2.0 = 6 quality points - Minimum Baseline GPA

3 credit C-:   3 x 2.0 = 6 quality points - Hurts GPA

3 credit D+:   3 x 1.0 = 3 quality points - Hurts GPA

3 credit D:   3 x 1.0 = 3 quality points - Hurts GPA

3 credit D-:   3 x 1.0 = 3 quality points - Severely Hurts GPA

3 credit F:   3 x  0.0 = 0 quality points - Severely hurts GPA  (See the F to R Policy)