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AMCAS GPA calculator

Enter each course with its credit hours and grade, tick the science courses, and see your cumulative, BCPM and AO GPAs the way AMCAS builds them: quality points divided by semester hours, per academic year. Saved only in this browser.

Estimates only. AMCAS verifies your transcripts and may classify courses or convert grades differently from the choices you make here. The AAMC's grades and GPA pages and the AMCAS Applicant Guide are the only authorities.

Applies to every row. Canadian rows follow the AAMC guide's "Numeric – Canadian" and Canadian percentage conversions.
Canadian applicants: a one-term course is usually entered as 3 semester hours and a full-year course as 6; confirm with your registrar or AMCAS.
FR, SO, JR, SR are your undergraduate years; PB is post-baccalaureate undergraduate work; GR is graduate work, reported separately.
StatusCourseHoursGradeBCPMAMCAS

Results

    By academic year

    StatusGPABCPMAOHours
    What counts as BCPM?

    AMCAS classifies by what the course is mostly about, not by the department that offered it. Paraphrased from the AMCAS Applicant Guide's course classification section; AMCAS can reclassify anything during verification.

    Counts as BCPM

      Does not count (goes to AO)

        How AMCAS builds the numbers

        AMCAS assigns each grade a weight on a 4.0 scale (A and A+ are both 4.0; A- is 3.7; B+ is 3.3, and so on down to F at 0.0). A course's quality points are its weight times its semester hours. A GPA is total quality points divided by total semester hours, computed for each academic status and for your undergraduate record as a whole. Science (BCPM) and all-other (AO) GPAs are computed the same way from the tagged subsets. Quarter hours are converted to semester hours first (for example 4 quarter hours become 2.7).

        Every attempt at a repeated course counts. Plus and minus grades count even if your school ignores them. Failed courses count even if your school later forgave them; if your school replaced the original grade under an academic-forgiveness policy, AMCAS still wants the original. Pass/fail, AP, CLEP and other test credit are listed as supplemental hours and do not enter any GPA. Withdrawals, audits, incompletes and courses in progress carry no weight. Graduate coursework is reported as a separate GPA and is not part of the undergraduate cumulative.

        Read the official rules in the AAMC's grades and GPA calculation chapter and the AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide (PDF).

        Assumptions and things we could not verify

        • The grade weights and the US percentage row, Canadian percentage rows, and Canadian 9-point and 10-point rows were read from the AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide (© 2022, still the linked current guide) on September 6, 2026 and encoded as data, not copied. The guide contains additional percentage variants and many school-specific rows we did not include; if your transcript uses a system not listed, pick the closest and expect AMCAS to override it.
        • In the Canadian 9-point row, both 2 and 1 are treated as C- (1.7) and 0 as F, following the guide's row as we read it.
        • GPAs are rounded to two decimals here. Some third-party calculators report that AMCAS truncates instead; we could not confirm this from AAMC documentation, so the last digit may differ by 0.01.
        • Semester-hour equivalents for Canadian courses (3 per one-term course, 6 per full-year course) are a common convention, not an AAMC rule; enter what your transcript or registrar states.
        • The trend is simply the change between your earliest and latest year-status GPA; AMCAS does not report a trend figure, schools read it off your year-by-year table.