Because of the standardization that occurs during verification, it is not uncommon to see GPA discrepancies between what your schools calculate and what RF-ATCAS calculates. Discrepancies can occur for several reasons, including if:
- RF-ATCAS does not recognize an individual school's policies for forgiveness, academic renewal, or grade replacement for repeated courses. RF-ATCAS 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 RF-ATCAS GPA.
- RF-ATCAS's numeric grade values differ from an individual school's.
- 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.
- For GPAs by academic year specifically, RF-ATCAS 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, RF-ATCAS uses all of that coursework to calculate the GPA for your freshman academic year.