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Free weighted GPA calculator. Mark each class Regular, Honors, or AP/IB and the standard bonus (+0.5, +1.0) gives your weighted GPA up to 5.0.
Count course rigor. Mark each class Regular, Honors, or AP/IB and the calculator adds the standard bonus so an A in an AP class is worth 5.0.
A weighted GPA rewards harder courses. Where an unweighted GPA caps every class at 4.0, a weighted scale adds a bonus for rigor: +0.5 for Honors and +1.0 for AP or IB. That pushes the top of the scale to 5.0 — an A in an AP class is worth 5.0, an A in an Honors class 4.5.
Set each course's level below along with its grade and credit hours. The calculator applies the bonus and credit-weights everything into your weighted GPA.
Start from the standard grade points (A = 4.0, B+ = 3.3, …), then add the level bonus before credit-weighting: Honors +0.5, AP/IB +1.0, Regular +0. So an A in an AP class scores 5.0 × its credits, while an A in a regular class scores 4.0 × its credits. Some schools cap or scale differently, but +0.5 / +1.0 is by far the most common convention.
Admissions offices see your weighted GPA but very often recalculate an unweighted or their own weighted version to compare applicants fairly across schools. That's why it helps to know both — compute your unweighted number with the same courses on the main GPA calculator and report whichever your target school asks for.
Unweighted caps every course at 4.0 no matter how hard it is. Weighted adds a bonus for course rigor (Honors +0.5, AP/IB +1.0), so it can go above 4.0 — up to 5.0 for an A in an AP class.
The standard bonus is +1.0 for AP or IB and +0.5 for Honors, applied to that course's grade points before credit-weighting. Policies vary by school, but this is the most widely used scale.
Yes — that's the point of weighting. With enough Honors and AP courses a weighted GPA commonly lands between 4.0 and 5.0.