4.10
Result: 4.10Weighted GPA = (grade points + honors credits × boost + AP credits × boost) ÷ total credits. Five one-credit courses worth 18 grade points, two of them AP and one honors, give (18 + 2 + 0.5) ÷ 5 = 4.10. Set both boosts to 0 and the same fields return the unweighted GPA.
Held fixed: Unweighted grade points (grade value × credits, added up) 18.00, Total credits 5.00, Credits in honors courses passed with C or better 1.00, Extra points per honors credit 0.50, Credits in AP, IB or GT courses passed with C or better 2.00.
| Extra points per AP credit | Result |
|---|---|
| 0.40 | 3.86 |
| 0.60 | 3.94 |
| 0.80 | 4.02 |
| 1.00Your value | 4.10 |
| 1.20 | 4.18 |
| 1.40 | 4.26 |
| 1.60 | 4.34 |
4.10
Open with these values4.60
Open with these values4.00
Open with these valuesWeighted GPA = (grade points + honors credits × boost + AP credits × boost) ÷ credits
A weighted GPA rewards harder courses by adding quality points to them. Howard County Public School System Policy 8020 spells the mechanism out: multiply the quality points of each final grade by the credits of the course, sum the results, divide by the total credits — and grant 0.5 additional quality points per credit for honors courses and 1.0 for AP or GT courses, but only where the grade is A, B or C. That last condition matters. A failed AP course earns its student nothing extra, which is why the two credit fields here ask only for credits passed with C or better. The boosts are fields rather than constants because districts disagree. Broward County Public Schools grant 1.0 for honors and 2.0 for AP, twice what Howard County grants. If your school publishes different numbers, put them in and the arithmetic stays right. What this page does not do is work course by course. It takes the totals, so it handles any number of courses but shows no per-course breakdown and no way to strike a single class. It also reports one number, the weighted GPA. For the unweighted figure, set both credit fields to zero: what remains is grade points over credits. A prior record and the cumulative GPA belong to the plain GPA calculator instead.
The page takes your summed grade points and credit counts. It handles any number of courses, but it cannot break the result down course by course.
0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP is the most common policy, but it is not universal — Broward County grants 1.0 and 2.0 for the same course types. Check what your district publishes before trusting the defaults.
Set the honors and AP credit fields to zero and the output is grade points divided by credits, which is exactly the unweighted GPA.
Counting a failed AP course among the AP credits
The boost requires a grade of A, B or C. A D or an F earns the plain point value and no extra quality points.
Adding the boost once per course instead of per credit
The extra points are granted per credit. A two-credit AP course earns twice the boost of a one-credit one.
Assuming a weighted GPA above 4.0 works everywhere
Many colleges recalculate applicants on their own scale, unweighted or with their own boost. The weighted number is your school's, not a universal one.
| Grade | Regular | Honors (+0.5) | AP / GT (+1.0) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| B | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| C | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 |
| D | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| E / F | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Take the unweighted grade points — grade value times credits, summed — add the extra quality points for honors and AP credits, and divide by the total credits. Five one-credit courses worth 18 points, two AP and one honors, give (18 + 2 + 0.5) ÷ 5 = 4.10.
Under the Howard County policy an AP or GT course adds 1.0 quality point per credit and an honors course adds 0.5, provided the grade is C or better. An A in an AP course is therefore worth 5.0 rather than 4.0.
The unweighted GPA treats every course the same and tops out at 4.0. The weighted GPA adds quality points for advanced coursework, so it can exceed 4.0. Setting both credit fields here to zero gives you the unweighted figure.
No. Both the Howard County and Broward County policies require a grade of C or better for the extra quality points. That is why this calculator asks only for the honors and AP credits you passed with C or above.
Because districts set them differently. Howard County grants 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP; Broward County grants 1.0 and 2.0 for the same kinds of course. The fields let you use your own school's published numbers.
Information, not professional advice.