Calculating your Admissions GPA for the Allard Law JD Program

Your home institution GPA scale can typically be found on your home institution's website or the last page of your transcript. For example, it could be a 4.0, 4.33, 9, 10, or a 12-point scale, or the Camosun College scale.

Download our Excel CGPA Calculator (.xls) and follow the instructions in the file. This Excel calculator will explain how to calculate your admissions CGPA, using your home institution's grade scale. 

For international students (outside of North America) and students evaluating international exchange credits, calculate your admissions CGPA using the grades listed in your credential evaluation assessment (e.g. WES report).

If you have not completed a credential evaluation assessment, use the World Education Services online tool to find the conversion charts for your international institution. The online tool will provide you with a US Letter Grade Equivalent that then needs to be converted to a numeric 4.0 scale where A = 4.00; A-=3.67; B+ = 3.33; B = 3.00; B- = 2.67; C+ = 2.33; C = 2.00; C- = 1.67; D+ = 1.33; D = 1.00; F = 0.

Instructions (also found in the Excel file)

• Only use the grades from your first attempt at undergraduate study. Include any CEGEP, transfer and exchange credits in your calculation. 
  
  *Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) grades are not to be considered in the calculation of your GPA, but do count toward your credit requirements.
   
• Exclude your 12 credits with the lowest grades if you’ve completed at least 90 credits (typically students who have completed at least three years of study), or 6 credits with the lowest grades if you’ve completed fewer than 90 credits (typically students who have completed fewer than three years of undergraduate study).
   
• If your grades are provided on a point scale/letter scale as well as a percentage scale, use the percentage grade.
   
• Do not include any courses you are currently enrolled in. Do not include any courses you have completed after your degree has been conferred.
   
• If you have repeated courses, use the average of the two attempts, unless the first attempt at a repeated course falls within your excluded credits as one of your lowest grades.
   
• Withdrawn and non-graded (pass, complete, satisfactory, credit/d/fail, credit/no credit etc.) courses are not calculated.
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  * If you receive a failing/no credit notation on a non-graded course, it should be counted in your excluded credits as one of your lowest grades.
   
• Applicants in a performance-based/fine arts programs are not eligible for exclusions.
   
• You may have to “split” grades to accurately exclude your 12 or 6 worst credits. For example, if you are seeking to exclude 12 credits and your 4 worst one-term courses are as follows…
  3 credits – 55%
  3 credits – 62%
  4 credits – 64%
  3 credits – 70%
  ...then you would need to include 1 credit at 70% in your calculation.

Using your home institution's grade scale in step 1 and the results from the Excel CGPA calculator in step 2, enter it into our GPA conversion tool. This tool will convert the admissions CGPA you have just generated to the UBC percentage scale.

1. Login to the SSC. Under “Grades & Records,” select “Your Grades Summary.”
2. Expand the “Average Calculator at the top of the page and sort the list of classes by clicking the “Grade” column.
3. Select all but your 12 credits with the lowest grades (if you’ve completed at least 90 credits) or 6 credits with your lowest grades (if you’ve completed fewer than 90 credits) by clicking on the courses in the list (or select “All” courses at the top and then de-select the excluded courses).
   * Remember to not include courses you’re currently enrolled in, or completed this fall. 
4. Your average will appear in the top-right of the page.