Finding Your OTACAS GPA Calculations

You can view your OTACAS GPAs once your application has been verified. To view your OTACAS GPAs:

1. From the application dashboard, navigate to the Applicant Menu and select Application PDFs.
2. Click the download button located next to any program you applied to.
3. Open the PDF and use the bookmarks to navigate to the Calculated GPA section.

Because of the standardization that occurs during verification, it is not uncommon to see GPA discrepancies between what your schools calculate and what OTACAS calculates. Discrepancies can occur for several reasons, including if:

• OTACAS does not recognize an individual school's policies for forgiveness, academic renewal, or grade replacement for repeated courses. OTACAS will verify based on how grades for repeated courses are reported on the official transcripts. All grades earned for repeated courses are factored into your OTACAS GPA.
• OTACAS's numeric grade values differ from an individual school's.
• OTACAS calculates all GPAs in semester hours. Courses that were completed in quarter hours are converted to semester hours. The conversion ratio is 1.0 quarter hour = 0.667 semester hours.
• For GPAs by academic year specifically, OTACAS combines coursework completed at multiple schools for similar academic years and calculates a GPA from that. For example, if you completed freshman coursework at College ABC and freshman coursework at College XYZ, OTACAS uses all of that coursework to calculate the GPA for your freshman academic year.