Calculating Cumulative GPA?

[tt503]

Hi everyone,

I have a question about calculating cumulative GPA...I graduated about 7 years ago with a 2.72 Degree GPA, which only accounts for courses I took for a year and a half at a liberal arts college. I transferred some courses from a community college, but these were not taken into consideration for my Degree GPA. Should I calculate the grades from the courses that were transferred to the liberal arts college to get my cumulative GPA (My GPA would be 2.95 with all my courses listed). I've also been a grad student for 4 years (two master's degrees), with nothing less than a 3.7 GPA.

Edited August 19, 2011 by tt503

[Eigen]

Usually, your cumulative GPA refers the cumulative GPA at that institution. Hence, transfer credits are usually not calculated into your GPA. You have a cumulative GPA from the community college, and then you have a cumulative GPA from your liberal arts college, and then two cumulative GPAs from your masters programs. You should probably report each separately.

[tt503]

Usually, your cumulative GPA refers the cumulative GPA at that institution. Hence, transfer credits are usually not calculated into your GPA. You have a cumulative GPA from the community college, and then you have a cumulative GPA from your liberal arts college, and then two cumulative GPAs from your masters programs. You should probably report each separately.

There typically isn't a space in online applications to report each institution separately. It usually just says, "Undergraduate GPA."

[Eigen]

Every application I've filled out has a space for each institution you've attended and the cumulative GPA. That may not be the case in yours, but I would hesitate to say your experiences are typical.

Really, for most questions like this it always comes down to "contact the school and see what they, specifically, want".

Edited August 19, 2011 by Eigen

[OldGrad2012]

I am in the same situation as tt503. I have a cumulative GPA for my undergraduate college. Two cumulative GPAs for two community colleges that I had attended. One cumulative GPAs for my master programs. My applications does not have spaces to report all these cumulative GPA. They just have one space to report the undergraduate cumulative GPA and a space to report the graduate GPA. So my questions is what to do with the other cumulative GPAs from the community colleges? Should I average them out into the undergraduate cumulative GPA? I do not know what to do. Please help.

[Eigen]

Again, you should ask the school. They're the only ones that really know what they want.