Graduate School GPA Calculation

[newyork167]

Hi all,

 

I've got an interesting question about how graduate schools calculate GPA. I go to Purdue where if you retake a class the old grade is removed from the GPA calculation. I'm getting ready to apply to graduate school and my advisor said that I put down the GPA that is on my transcript, but from what I've read online many say that they recalculate your GPA with all grades ever obtained. Do graduate schools actually recalculate your GPA or do they take what is on the official transcript? Which should I put down, my overall cumulative that I calculated, which is obviously lower, or the one that is on my official transcript? Thanks!

[Guest |||]

Is the past grade actually removed and taken off all records?  If so, then no one is going to see it anyway.

 

Some schools will recalculate your gpa, some will consider it in light of the institution you came from.  One reason many schools recalculate your gpa is to have a uniform rubric across applicants - if some schools have an A set at 80~, and other schools at 90~, it would result in an unfair GPA (potentially, scaling and other factors might aid the situation, but we don't want to take assumptions).

 

 

 

For your overall gpa, I would write down what it says on your current academic record, if another school wishes to recalculate it to their standards, they will do so.

[newyork167]

No, the grade is still listed on my official transcript. Any ideas on how to talk about it with the admissions committee if it ever came up? Pretty much, I took some classes and had some health issues over a year. This led to me getting some pretty atrocious grades. After retaking my GPA increased tremendously. I've seen some schools ask for JR/SR grades, so I'm wondering if many schools even care about the lower level grades.