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Calculate your Harvard GPA/CGPA, academic standing, and required target GPA.
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This calculator uses Harvard's specific letter-grade-to-point scale (A=4.00 down to E, ABS, UNS, and EXLD all at 0.00, with W and I grades excluded from GPA entirely) to compute your semester GPA and cumulative CGPA, alongside your resulting academic standing and the GPA you'd need going forward to hit a target.
Enter each course's letter grade and credit hours for the Semester GPA tab, or combine semester results for Cumulative CGPA. The Target GPA tab solves for the average you need in remaining credits to reach a specific goal. Your progress is saved locally in your browser between visits.
GPA = Sum of (Grade Points × Credits) ÷ Total Credits
W (withdrawn) and I (incomplete) grades are excluded from the calculation entirely, rather than counted as 0.00 -- they don't factor into either the quality points or the credit total.
| GPA | Standing |
|---|---|
| ≥ 3.80 | Summa Cum Laude range |
| ≥ 3.00 (typical range) | Good standing |
| ≥ 0.01 | Warning |
Standing thresholds are checked from highest to lowest, and your GPA is matched to the first threshold it meets or exceeds.
Harvard students tracking their semester and cumulative GPA against their own goals, or planning how a specific course load might affect their standing. For a different institution's grade scale, see the Stanford GPA Calculator, or the general-purpose Advanced GPA Calculator for a scale not tied to a specific school.
This is an independent tool built to replicate Harvard's published grading scale and isn't an official Harvard University service -- always confirm your official GPA and standing through your university's own registrar records.
Consider a hypothetical semester of three courses. A 4-credit course graded A earns 4.00 x 4 = 16.00 quality points. A 4-credit course graded B+ earns 3.33 x 4 = 13.32. A 2-credit course graded A earns 4.00 x 2 = 8.00. The total is 37.32 quality points over 10 credits, which is 3.732, or about 3.73. If you added a fourth course graded W, nothing would change, because withdrawn courses drop out of both the numerator and the denominator.
Say your record shows a 3.60 over 32 credits and you want a 3.70 cumulative after another 32 credits. The Target tab solves (3.70 x 64 - 3.60 x 32) / 32 = 3.80. So you would need to average 3.80 in the next 32 credits. That is more than the goal itself, because the goal is measured across all 64 credits and your first 32 are already fixed. This is a common surprise: raising a cumulative average takes a stronger run than the size of the gap suggests.
The standing shown is a simple lookup against the threshold table on this page. It is a quick indicator and not an official determination. Real academic standing at any university can depend on more than a single GPA figure, including the number of courses completed, department rules, and how a registrar treats incompletes once they are resolved. Use the label as a rough guide and confirm the official version with your registrar or adviser.
The calculator does not know your specific transcript, pass/fail elections, transfer credit, or any changes the institution makes to its policies over time. If your result and your official transcript disagree, trust the transcript and use the difference to look for a misentered credit value or grade.
No -- withdrawn (W) and incomplete (I) grades are excluded entirely from both the quality points and credit totals, rather than counted as a 0.00.
Yes -- your entered courses and grades are saved in your browser's local storage, so they persist when you return, though this is local to your specific browser and device.
Because the goal applies to all credits combined. If your earlier credits sit below the goal, the remaining credits must sit above it to average out to the target.
A course with zero credits contributes no quality points and no weight, so it has no effect on the GPA. Use the real credit value if you want it to count.
The tool applies the scale on this page to whatever you enter. If your program uses different grade points or a different standing system, check that program's published rules first.