How do I figure out what my GPA will be after this semester without having to calculate every class I've taken for the past 2 years?

You need to know how many credits you’ve taken so far, and how many you’re taking this semester.

For example, let’s say you’re a sophomore currently. So you’ve completed 2 semesters, of 16 credits each (my school used the 4×4 system – 4 4-hour classes per semester). That’s 32 credits. So the total points you earned so far is 32×2.76 = 88.32

Now you’re estimating an additional 16×1.85 points this semester. That’s 29.6.

At the end of this semester, then, you’ll have a total of 48 credits and 117.92 points. 117.92 / 48 = 2.456666667 GPA.

Aaaaaahhhhhh… that is very tedious. I was hoping some math-inclined smartypants could tell me there was an easy way to mash up the numbers somehow.

Okay, I just am going to have to suck it up and use a calculator, I guess. Thanks.

If the question is will you get a 2.0 with an estimated 1.85 for the current semester, the answer is almost certainly yes.

approx the same classload per semester.
1 semester @ 2.76+1 semester @ 1.85 = average aprx 2.3
2 semester @ 2.76+1 semester @ 1.85 = average aprx 2.46
3 semester @ 2.76+1 semester @ 1.85 = average aprx 2.53

See the trend?

Doing two multiplications, an addition, and a division is “tedius”? Really? Wow.

You can also divide your current credits by your total credits at semester-end, and multiply that percentage by 1.85. Then multiply 2.76 by the remaining percentage, and add the results. Same math, just differently:

16/48 = ⅓.
⅓ * 1.85 = 0.61666667.
⅔ * 2.76 = 1.84.
1.84 + 0.61666667 = 2.4566667

Perhaps spend more time in class and studying; that would raise your GPA without all those pesky time-consuming calculations.

Go to the Maths department. Tell a TA to make his freshmen students to do it for you. Done and done.

@gailcalled – That manages to be both not helpful and judgemental at the same time. Thanks.

@MissAnthrope and that makes mine simply not helpful. :)

awwww. I wanted to be unhelpful and judgemental. I was seduced by the math of it.

I was almost unhelpful and judgmental, but I resisted.

Everyone else was fine. I really, really dislike people judging me when they obviously have NO freaking idea who I am or what I’ve gone through. Because of that, I will not dignify that comment with an explanation.

I’ve been on this site long enough that you should have some idea of who I am by now. You should know I try to be helpful and when do you ever see me being snarky?

Don’t judge. You don’t know my story.

I though I was offering useful advice about doing well at school. Perhaps not. Sorry.

I hate to quibble, but really? I mean, you’d have to think I’m as dense as a rock to think I didn’t know those things already, and that that would be helpful or useful. I’ve reread it several times and I find it impossible to view it any other way.

That’s what I mean about not judging because you (general) don’t know. Not only am I a bright person, I went to SuperCamp. I learned a lot of things, including how to study, memorization techniques, to sit in the front, and to speed read, amongst other things.

Sorry there’s no “easy answer”. If you understand weighted averages, you’ll understand that each class you take is worth a certain number of hours, and so it has a certain weight in your GPA. You can get a rough estimate by estimating how many hours you’ve already taken, since it sounds like you don’t know, and then using @MrItty‘s method.

I just bit the bullet and used an online GPA calculator.. that’s what I meant by “tedious”, having to go back and forth between my transcript and plugging in values. Instead of complaining about it, I guess I should be thankful that such calculators exist, as it made the task a million times easier.

@MissAnthrope…. except that you didn’t have to go through any of that. There was no need to know anything from your transcript except the total number of credits you’ve taken and your current GPA. You had to do a grand total of 4 calculations – two multiplications, a division, and an addition.

Ah well. It took me probably less time to do what I did than it would to figure out how many credits I’ve taken at this school (I’ve attended 4 total), then figure all the rest out. It ended up not being as tedious as I thought.

@MissAnthrope Huh? How could it possibly take you longer to find your total credits than—- no. You know what? Never mind. I’ve stopped caring. I’m glad you got your answer. Take care.

@MissAnthrope I don’t know if you realize how much you have revealed about yourself in the several questions you have posted on the topic of your educational pursuits. If all the claims you have made are true, it seems you are not as serious as you should be. You are a 33 yo who has attended 4 colleges without settling on a major by your Sr year.

You have talked about majoring in a biology specialization major or maybe you will just toss it all in and become a teacher. It’s not that easy, it would require at least an additional semester of specific biology and other classes and a year in teacher training. You claim to be a good student and one needs to be in order to be referred to a teaching program by a professor in one’s major field. A GPA of 2.6 and falling ia at best barely average.

I had assumed you were on a quarter program to be dropping classes in Dec. When I looked it up I saw that Dec 10 was the cut off date but next week is finals week so you basically have just frittered away a semester of your life with nothing to show for it. I’m not sure why you did this. Whether it is because you long for California or you can’t find it in you to “respect” anything or anyone connected with WVU (of course you don’t have to respect WVU in order to do the job) or because your mother has offered to help financially (all things you threw out there)

You really have to stop finding excuses for your irresponsible choices. You won’t find anything different waiting for you in California except it costs more to live here and schools will be more impacted. I suspected you are fritzing around because you don’t know what you want. Do yourself a favor and figure it out.

Again, you really know nothing about me or my life for the past 10 years. So, I guess thanks for the advice, but I pretty much know what I’m doing.

Since it keeps coming up, let me tell you that I have always held at least a 3.2, up until this school. I left my last school with a 4.0. My first semester of college, I carried 19 credits and was in the school production and still managed to make the Dean’s List.

WVU is not a good fit for me, and the major I chose here ended up not being a good fit, either. There are a lot of other factors in my life that contributed to my lack of success here, but I never once claimed no responsibility for my grades.

I have a plan, it’s all good.