AMCAS GPA Calculator

• Quality points = AMCAS weight × semester hours; each AMCAS GPA = total quality points ÷ total semester hours.
• AMCAS reports a GPA for each academic status (high school, freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, postbaccalaureate, graduate), each split into BCPM, AO (all other) and Total.
• BCPM GPA: only courses classified as biology, chemistry, physics or mathematics (including statistics and biostatistics). Natural and physical sciences courses (e.g. geology, environmental science) go into AO, not BCPM.
• Postbaccalaureate undergraduate courses are included in the cumulative undergraduate GPA; graduate courses are calculated separately.
• Every attempt of a repeated course counts, even if your school replaces the earlier grade; original grades removed by academic forgiveness or bankruptcy must be entered and count.
• Pluses and minuses always count, even if your school ignores them; A+ and A both carry 4.0.
• Failed courses count with 0.0 even if your school leaves them out; IF or unofficial/administrative withdrawals may be treated as F.
• Pass/Fail courses (pass and fail), AP, CLEP and other test credit are reported as supplemental hours, not in the GPA; W, AU, deferred-grade, exempt and no-record courses carry no weight.
• Any course with credit hours and a letter or numeric grade counts, whether or not it counted toward your degree, including college courses taken in high school.
• Quarter hours become semester hours (e.g. 3.0 quarter = 2.0 semester, 4.0 = 2.7, 5.0 = 3.3).
• AMCAS converts each school's grades with conversion data from that school; the AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide gives the tables for other grading systems (half-step, pass/fail, numeric, Canadian).

Sources: Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), AMCAS® Application Grade Conversion Guide (retrieved 2 Oct 2026); Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), 2027 AMCAS® Applicant Guide (retrieved 2 Oct 2026). Checked against the document on 2 Oct 2026.