Percentage To GPA Conversion

Applying to U.S. Universities require you to enter GPA. But if transcripts have grades in percentage then students try to convert

Convert Percentage(100) to GPA(4.0)

GPA Converter

If you are looking for some table that will map your percentage score to GPA like this one

Percentage	GPA
81 to 100	4.0
61 to 80	3.50
51 to 60	3.00
41 to 50	2.50
< 40	2.00

Grade Point Average (GPA)

Percentage Score (1 to 100) is used various countries, but in U.S. Schools use GPA system is used fo grading studnets.

GPA Vs Percentage

Both GPA and % assigns grades to students, they are essentially calculated in different ways. They are not the same or its not possible to equate or compare.

How GPA is Calculated

Grades will be assigned to student for each course ( A = 4.0; B = 3.0; C = 2.0 ; D = 1.0; F = 0; )

And  each course has Credit Hours. Usually Graduate level courses will have 3 Credit Hours per course.

Lets’ say at end of the semester, professor assigns grade of B to Course Database, Grade A to Course Networks and Grade A to course Software Testing. GPA is calculated as follows

• Total Grades = Sum of (Grade * Credit Hours)= B*3 + A*3 + A*3 = 3*3+4*3+4*3 =33


• Total Credit Hours = 3+3+3 = 9


• GPA = Total Grades/Total Credit Hours = 33/9 = 3.66

From Yale University Admission Officer:

I strongly suggest not to use convert percentage score to GPA using any of the formulas. When student asked about converting percentage to GPA, Yale University Admission officer, responded

No need for you to convert. We ask for your gpa and also the scale. You would just report the 78 and a scale of 10

In the graduate school application, you will find

• What is your GPA:


• Scale :

If you have 77% then you will need to fill the application

• What is your GPA: 77


• Scale :100

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