cumalative gpa how do you calculate

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Hey guys this forum has been very helpful. I went to check at schools I'm interested in my state. Some only look for prereq gpa while other look for overall gpa. Well I went on google and look up gpa calculator. My prereq gpa for nursing is 3.8 while my overall is 3.5. I'm a little confuse on the overall gpa though. What do they mean by overall? All of the classes I took while in college? Also what classes count towards science gpa? The reason I'm confuse on overall gpa was prior to this I was a biology major. It says on my transcript undergraduate is 2.36 (ouccchhhh). I just lost motivation and got really depress after failing calculus 3. I don't know why they even make us take that much math for a biology major. My school also require to get a minor in order to graduate. I no longer want to be a biology student. I lost the motivation. I'm hoping that nursing will give me a second chance.

So when they mean over all gpa does that mean my undergraduate gpa or does that mean all of my classes taken so far? Please excuse my stupidity. I just been searching on this forum for the exact same thing but didn't find the answer. Sorry if this thread already been made. I just really want to get my life together now and hoping for a brighter future.

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I would like to add how I got 3.53. I just enter all the classes I took. This whole gpa thing is making me have a headache. I went to my community college and my cum was 3.6 and my university gpa was 2.36. Could you guys please help me calculate all my gpa. I just don't want to send different transcript to different school and waste my money if I don't even meet the gpa requirements.

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Overall would mean EVERYTHING--both GPA from classes taken towards your degree and the classes in the community college and everything else you've taken at the undergrad level. Good luck!

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So did I get it right guys?

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It's hard to say if you are right. It depends on how many credits you have in each program. Ideally you would take the total number of credits you have in your prerequs and multiply them by your prereq gpa. Then you need to take the number of credits you have in your BA program and multply that by your gpa for that program. Add those totals together and divide by the total combined number of credits.

For example, if you have an A in a Biology class that is worth 5 credits and a C in a 1 credit CPR class, your GPA wouldn't be a 3.0, it would be 4.0x5 + 2.0x1 /6 = 3.667. Now, you also have to take into consideration whether all of the classes are on semesters or whether some are quarters. A semester class that is worth 4 credits and a quarter class worth 4 credits aren't actually equal.

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This is more complicated than I thought. I just put all my grades in a online gpa calculator. Didn't know about the quarter thing. Could I post my grades on here and you see how you could help me please? I just dont wan't to waste around 60 bucks sending in applications and transcripts. I already in need of money to take care of my family. I know it's frugal but I want to save some money.

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This is more complicated than I thought. I just put all my grades in a online gpa calculator. Didn't know about the quarter thing. Could I post my grades on here and you see how you could help me please? I just dont wan't to waste around 60 bucks sending in applications and transcripts. I already in need of money to take care of my family. I know it's frugal but I want to save some money.

I think how those courses count will vary from school to school. For example, my undergrad semester courses are 4 credits each. My community college credits are 5 credits each (on quarters) and my community college counts my undergrad semester courses as worth 6-7 credits each.

About how many classes/credit hours do you have on that undergrad gpa?

About how many classes/credit hours do you have on the prereq gpa?

For you to have a mid 3. overall, you would have to have lots of prereq classes and only a few undergrad classes.

I'm happy to help you, but if you enter each grade with credits separately into a calculator, it should give you a fair idea of what your overall GPA is, just keeping in mind that some schools may weight those semester credits are heavier than quarter credits - so an A in a 4 credit semester class may help your gpa more than an A in a 5 credit quarter class.

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Here's how you calculate GPA. Forget the online calculator. It's not that difficult, unless I'm not understanding something here. Ok, (1) for EACH institution you've attended, multiply the number of credit hours by your GPA at that institution. Use an official transcript to figure this. Put this number in a column entitled 'Grade Points'. Now repeat for each institution you've attended. (2) Add up ALL credit hours from ALL institutions. (3) Add up ALL grade points (NOT GPA) from all institutions. This number should be significantly higher than the total no. of credit hours. (4) Divide the Total Grade Points by Total credit hours. This is your cumulative GPA.

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Ok I got it now. My cum is 3.23 and my prereq gpa is 3.88 thank you guys!! I'm surprise I'm still in the 3.2 area since I fail a class and did so bad in my other advance biology classes. That organic chemistry was a killer! Took most of my studying time. Well I'm glad I'm still met more than then minimum requirement. Now I just got to make straight A's in my five remaining prerequisite for bsn class. Thank you again guys!

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How a W can affect my GPA???

The class was not one of the nursing pre-requisits, but I still have the W tho. Is this going to lower the GPA too much?

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It shouldn't at all. Depending on who's evaluating your grades/transcripts, they may or may not like it, but it has no effect on your GPA as far as I know.

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It shouldn't at all. Depending on who's evaluating your grades/transcripts, they may or may not like it, but it has no effect on your GPA as far as I know.

Wow cool!!! uhhh...What a relieve..thanks for the Info. :lol2:

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