Calculating Your RF-ATCAS GPAs

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If your program requires... (Note: see the Colleges Attended & Transcript Entry sections for more information on transcript and coursework requirements.)	...then RF-ATCAS does the following with GPAs...	... and your application's final status is...
Official Transcripts + Full Coursework Entry	Calculates three GPAs and makes them available to your programs: By course subject By school By academic year	Verified
Official Transcripts + Prerequisite Entry Only	Provides your programs with per transcript and overall GPAs.	Verified
Official Transcripts + No Coursework Entry	Provides your programs with per transcript and overall GPAs.	Verified
Unofficial Transcripts + Prerequisite Entry Only	Does not calculate or provide GPAs to programs.	Complete
Unofficial Transcripts + No Coursework Entry	Does not calculate or provide GPAs to programs.	Complete
No Transcripts + No Coursework Entry	Does not calculate or provide GPAs to programs.	Complete

Overview

During verification, RF-ATCAS uses the information you entered in the Transcript Entry section to calculate several GPAs, including GPAs for each institution you attended. To calculate these GPAs, each A-F or 0-100 grade you entered in the Grade field is first converted to a RF-ATCAS numeric grade value, then multiplied by the attempted credits. The resulting product is Quality Points.

Your total Quality Points are then divided by your Attempted Credits to determine your GPA.

Non-graded credits are not included in your GPAs. Non-graded credits are earned credits for which you did not receive actual letter grades (e.g., advanced placement credits, "pass" or "satisfactory" credits, college board AP exams, courses taken as pass/fail, etc.). Note: a grade of WF (i.e., equivalent of a withdrawn with penalty, withdrawn failing, etc.) is factored into GPA calculations as an F.

RF-ATCAS 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.

Use the GPA Calculator to see how RF-ATCAS will calculate your GPA.

Example:

Course	Transcript Grade	Converted Numeric Grade Value	Attempted Credits	Calculation	Quality Points
MATH 1100	A	4	4	4 x 4	16
ENGL 1310	B	3	3	3 x 3	9
GEOL 1610	C	2	4	2 x 4	8
PHED 1000	D	1	3	1 x 3	3
PSCI 1040	F	0	3	0 x 3	0
Total			17		36
GPA Calculation: 36 (Quality Points) / 17 (Attempted Credits) = 2.12 (GPA)

GPA Types

Year-level GPAs

Using Quality Points, RF-ATCAS calculates a GPA for each academic year. GPAs from your Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior academic years are subsequently:

Combined with any post-baccalaureate coursework to create a cumulative undergraduate GPA, and
Combined with any post-baccalaureate coursework plus any graduate coursework to create an overall GPA.

Year-Level GPA Example:

Year	Credits	Quality Points	GPA
Freshman	66	166.2	2.52
Sophomore	48	119.4	2.49
Junior	66	223.2	3.38
Senior	60	169.2	2.82
Total	240	678.0	2.83
Post-Baccalaureate	28	112.0	4.00
Cumulative Undergraduate	268	790.0	2.95
Graduate	66	245.4	3.72
Overall	334	1035.4	3.10

Course Subject Category GPAs

Course Subject Category GPAs are based on your overall GPA in each course subject category, regardless of academic year. During verification, RF-ATCAS ensures course subjects are placed in the correct categories so that GPAs reflect the appropriate coursework. To view which course subject GPAs are calculated by RF-ATCAS, refer to RF-ATCAS Course Subjects.

Course Subject Category GPA Example:

Course Subject Category	Graded Credits	Quality Points	GPA
Biology/Chemistry/Physics	84.0	270	3.21
English	6.0	15.0	2.50
Mathematics	6.0	18.0	3.00
Other Science	34.0	90.1	2.65