# AMCAS GPA calculator > Enter your courses to get the GPAs AMCAS reports: BCPM, AO and total for each year, using the AAMC grade weights, quarter hour table and course classifications. Markdown copy of https://meduniexam.com/tools/amcas-gpa-calculator (the HTML page), published by MedUni Exam. Published November 5, 2026. Site guide for agents: https://meduniexam.com/llms.txt. Enter your courses to see the GPAs the AMCAS application reports: BCPM, all other and total, for each year in school and for your cumulative undergraduate record. The calculator uses the AAMC's own grade weights, its quarter hour table and its course classifications, counts every attempt of a repeated course as AMCAS does, and keeps pass/fail, AP and CLEP credit out of the GPA. Your courses stay in your browser. ## How AMCAS calculates your GPA AMCAS gives every course a weight from its grade and multiplies it by the course's semester hours to get its quality points. A GPA is the quality points of a group of courses divided by their semester hours. AMCAS works out three of them for each year in school, BCPM, all other (AO) and total, and the same three for your whole undergraduate record. The weights are 4.0 for both A+ and A, 3.7 for A-, 3.3 for B+, 3.0 for B, 2.7 for B-, 2.3 for C+, 2.0 for C, 1.7 for C-, 1.3 for D+, 1.0 for D, 0.7 for D- and 0.0 for F. A school that grades in half steps maps to AB 3.5, BC 2.5, CD 1.5 and DE 0.5. AMCAS counts every plus and minus even where your school does not, and it gives A+ the same 4.0 as A. Every attempt of a repeated course counts, even if your school keeps only the last grade, so each attempt is a row of its own. A failed course counts at 0.0 with all its hours, even where your school leaves it out of its own GPA. Some grades have no value or weight at all: W (withdrawn or dropped), AU (audited), CC (taking now or planned), DG (a multiterm course whose grade is deferred), EX (exempt) and NR (no grade recorded because of a school error). An incomplete is not counted until a grade is given. The Applicant Guide adds: "Depending on how your school considers them, grades of IF (incomplete failure) or unauthorized, unofficial, or administrative withdrawal may be treated as an F in your AMCAS GPA." If your transcript shows one of those as a failure, enter it as F. Pass/fail courses, AP credit, CLEP credit and other test credit, such as IB, usually stay out of every GPA. AMCAS reports their hours on a separate Supplemental Hours line, split into P/F Pass, P/F Fail, AP, CLEP and Other, and the calculator does the same. The Applicant Guide names one exception for IB credit: when the U.S. or Canadian school that granted it shows a letter grade on its transcript, AMCAS counts that grade, so enter such a course with its letter grade and a classification. A failed pass/fail course goes to P/F Fail; an F in a graded course is a letter grade that counts. A pass/fail course enters the GPA only if your school gives AMCAS a letter grade conversion for it. Each course sits in one year in school: high school (college courses taken before you finished high school), freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, postbaccalaureate undergraduate (undergraduate courses you took after your first bachelor's degree) and graduate (graduate-level courses not applied to an undergraduate degree). The guide's chart places freshman at 24 to 35 semester and supplemental hours, sophomore at 36 to 65, junior at 66 to 95 and senior at 96 or more, and AP, IB and CLEP credit goes under freshman. The cumulative undergraduate row adds up every undergraduate row, high school and postbaccalaureate included. Graduate courses are a row of their own and stay out of it. BCPM is every course classified Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics, all other is every course in the other 16 classifications, and the total holds both. The AAMC does not publish how it rounds a GPA. This page rounds half up to two places and does the arithmetic in whole numbers, so an average that lands exactly on a half always rounds up: four 1 hour Biology courses graded A, B+, B and B average exactly 3.325, and the page shows 3.33. ## Quarter hours and other credit systems AMCAS converts quarter hours to semester hours. The AAMC's table works out to quarter hours times 2/3, rounded to a tenth, and the calculator uses that rule; it gives the same answer as every row of the table, from 0.5 quarter hours to 20. Three examples: 4 quarter hours is 2.7 semester hours, 5 is 3.3 and 10 is 6.7. The calculator converts each course on its own, as the AAMC's worksheet does, so three courses of 4 quarter hours count as 8.1 semester hours. For any other credit system, the Grade Conversion Guide sends you to your advisor or registrar for semester conversion values. On the application itself you enter the hours exactly as your transcript shows them, and AMCAS does the conversion; the conversion here is only for the estimate. ## BCPM or all other: choosing the classification Four classifications make up BCPM: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. The other 16 go to all other. Some courses that sound close to science fall outside BCPM: in the AAMC's Course Classification Guide, Psychology is Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Nutrition and Pharmacology and Pharmacy are Health Sciences, so all three count in all other. Others land inside it: Biochemistry is Chemistry, Biostatistics and Statistics are Mathematics, and Neuroscience is Biology. Natural and Physical Sciences, the classification of courses such as Environmental Science and Policy, is outside BCPM too. In the guide's words, "Natural and physical sciences courses (NPSCs) are not included in the BCPM GPA." You choose each course's classification by its main content, not by the department that teaches it, and AMCAS may change a classification that clearly does not apply. For a course that mixes subjects, the guide points to the course description on your school's website or to your prehealth advisor. ## Worked examples Example A is a freshman and a sophomore year. Organic Chemistry I was taken twice, Introduction to Sociology was taken pass/fail, and Spanish II ended in a withdrawal. | Course | Status | Classification | Hours | Grade | In the report | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | General Chemistry I | Freshman | Chemistry | 4 | A- | BCPM | | Biology I | Freshman | Biology | 4 | B+ | BCPM | | English Composition | Freshman | English Language and Literature | 3 | A | All other | | Calculus I | Freshman | Mathematics | 4 | B | BCPM | | Introduction to Psychology | Freshman | Behavioral and Social Sciences | 3 | A | All other | | Organic Chemistry I | Sophomore | Chemistry | 4 | C+ | BCPM | | Organic Chemistry I (repeat) | Sophomore | Chemistry | 4 | B+ | BCPM | | Physics I | Sophomore | Physics | 4 | B- | BCPM | | Introduction to Sociology | Sophomore | Behavioral and Social Sciences | 3 | P | Supplemental hours, P/F Pass | | Spanish II | Sophomore | Foreign Languages, Linguistics, and Literature | 4 | W | Not counted | Example A as AMCAS would report it | Status | BCPM GPA | BCPM hours | All other GPA | All other hours | Total GPA | Total hours | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Freshman | 3.33 | 12.00 | 4.00 | 6.00 | 3.56 | 18.00 | | Sophomore | 2.77 | 12.00 | | | 2.77 | 12.00 | | Cumulative Undergraduate | 3.05 | 24.00 | 4.00 | 6.00 | 3.24 | 30.00 | Both attempts of Organic Chemistry I count, so the C+ stays in the sophomore and cumulative rows beside the B+. The pass/fail course adds 3.00 hours to P/F Pass and nothing to any GPA, and Spanish II, a withdrawal, counts nowhere. Cumulative undergraduate: BCPM 3.05 over 24.00 hours, all other 4.00 over 6.00, total 3.24 over 30.00. Example B is three freshman courses of 4 quarter hours each: Biology with an A, Chemistry with a B and English with an A-. Each counts as 2.7 semester hours, so BCPM is 3.50 over 5.40 hours, all other 3.70 over 2.70 and the total 3.57 over 8.10. Example C is two junior Biology courses of 3 hours each on a half step scale, graded AB (3.5) and BC (2.5): BCPM is 3.00 over 6.00 hours, and so is the total, 3.00 over 6.00. From Example A's cumulative record, 97.2 quality points over 30 hours, a total GPA of 3.50 after 30 more hours needs an average of at least 3.76 in those hours. A total of 3.90 after 15 more hours is out of reach: it would take an average of 5.22, and straight A grades would bring it to 3.49. The calculator's own code writes these numbers, so they match what the form gives for the same courses. ## What this calculator does not do - It is not an AAMC tool, and this site is not affiliated with the AAMC. - It gives an estimate. AMCAS verifies your coursework against your official transcripts, and the verified GPA it reports is the one medical schools see. That GPA can differ from this estimate, and from the GPA on your school's transcript. - It takes AMCAS grades. If your school grades with numbers or symbols of its own, read each grade against the AAMC's conversion charts first. Which chart applies is set by your school, and on some charts a transcript B+ becomes the AMCAS grade AB, worth 3.5 rather than 3.3. Narrative evaluations are not factored into the AMCAS GPA, so leave those courses out. - It does not sort coursework taken outside the U.S. and Canada. The Foreign Coursework section of the Applicant Guide, which starts on page 43, decides whether such courses count: that depends on whether the credit was transferred to a U.S. or Canadian school or came through a study abroad program, and an accredited American college overseas counts as a U.S. college. Enter only the coursework that section says counts. - It applies the AMCAS rules only. AACOMAS and TMDSAS calculate their own GPAs under their own rules. - It predicts no admission decision. ## MCAT practice from your own notes If the MCAT is still ahead of you, this site's [MCAT practice page](https://meduniexam.com/exam/mcat.md) turns a chapter of your own MCAT review into discrete science questions, each citing the line it came from. It does not write passage sets or CARS. The MCAT side of an application, with the applicant and matriculant means, is in [MCAT percentiles and the 2026 and 2027 test dates](https://meduniexam.com/blog/mcat-percentiles-table-and-test-dates-2026-2027.md). ## Sources for the rules on this page - [2027 AMCAS Applicant Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/11616/download), AAMC: the Coursework section, pages 27 to 42, and the Foreign Coursework section from page 43; read November 4, 2026. - [AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7761/download), AAMC: the grade weights, the quarter hour table and the worksheet; read November 4, 2026. - [Guidance on Grading and Transcript Notations in the AMCAS Application](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7756/download), AAMC: pass/fail and other grades with no weight; read November 4, 2026. - [AMCAS Grade Conversions](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7786/download?attachment=), AAMC: the charts that turn each school's grades into AMCAS grades; read November 4, 2026. - [Course Classification Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school-amcas/publication-chapters/course-classification-guide), AAMC: the classifications and the courses under each; read November 4, 2026. ## Share this calculator - WhatsApp - Telegram - X - Reddit - LinkedIn - Email - - ## Sources The outside pages this page links to, in the order they first appear. - [2027 AMCAS Applicant Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/11616/download) - [AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7761/download) - [Guidance on Grading and Transcript Notations in the AMCAS Application](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7756/download) - [AMCAS Grade Conversions](https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/7786/download?attachment=) - [Course Classification Guide](https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school-amcas/publication-chapters/course-classification-guide) ## Related pages - [MCAT Percentiles Table 2026, 2027 Test Dates](https://meduniexam.com/blog/mcat-percentiles-table-and-test-dates-2026-2027.md): Every MCAT total score from 472 to 528 with its percentile rank, the section percentiles from 118 to 132, the 35 U.S. test dates in 2027 with score release dates, and the AAMC fees in USD. - [How Long to Study: Step 1, NCLEX, MCAT 2027](https://meduniexam.com/blog/how-long-to-study-for-step-1-nclex-and-mcat.md): Study time for Step 1, the NCLEX and the MCAT counted from dates: 16, 12 and 6 week start dates for each of the 35 MCAT test dates in 2027, and the booking, results and retake clocks USMLE and NCSBN publish. - [How Many Times You Can Take the NCLEX, Step 1, MCAT, PLAB 1](https://meduniexam.com/blog/how-many-times-can-you-take-step-1-nclex-mcat-and-plab-1.md): The attempt limit for all eleven exams in one table: the NCLEX eight a year, four per USMLE Step, seven MCAT attempts in a lifetime, five NAPLEX attempts, five PLAB 1 attempts with the fifth by application, six at MRCP Part 1.