Western GPA calculator for Ontario applicants.

How Western calculates GPA

The rules, straight from Western University Senate Academic Policies · Grading Scale for Undergraduate Students, effective 1 September 2024.

• Western's undergraduate scale: A+ = 90-100, A = 80-89, B = 70-79, C = 60-69, D = 50-59, F = below 50. Six grades, no plus or minus within them, and no grade-point column anywhere in Senate policy or on the transcript.
• The transcript legend states: "The University of Western Ontario does not issue a grade point average for students." The figures Western computes are a term (sessional) average and a cumulative average, both weighted by course weight and expressed in percent.
• Course weights are 1.0 for a full course, 0.5 for a half course and 0.25 for a quarter course. The weighted average is the sum of weight times mark, divided by the sum of weights.
• Failed marks are included, with a floor. Marks below 40% count as 40% in average calculations; marks from 40% to 49% count as reported. A course dropped after the final drop date is recorded as F and counted at 40%. A plain mean of your marks will understate your average if you have failed anything badly.
• Repeats: a passed course may be repeated once and a failed course twice. All attempts appear on the transcript, but only the most recent counts in the cumulative average for progression. Earlier attempts are marked Repeated, No Credit, though a failed one still counts toward the maximum of 6.0 failures allowed.
• Standing has two levels. Level 1 (from 3.0 course attempts): Good Standing at 55% or above, Probation 50 to 54%, Required to Withdraw below 50%. Level 2 (from 8.0 attempts): Good Standing at 60%, Probation 55 to 59%, Required to Withdraw below 55%. Adjudication is in May and again in July or August.
• Dean's Honour List (policy effective 1 September 2026): at least 4.0 courses in the Fall/Winter session, an 80% average and no failed courses. Engineering needs 5.0 courses; Education needs 85%; Ivey and Law use class rank. Graduating "with distinction" needs an 80% overall average, no grade below 70% and no failures.
• For Dean's Honour List, scholarship retention and module progression, averages are calculated to two decimals and rounded to a whole number with .45 rounding up. A 79.45 is 80 for those purposes and 79.45 on the page.
• For OMSAS, OLSAS and ORPAS, Western is on OUAC Scale 3, the percentage column, so each course percentage converts directly. A Western letter cannot be converted at all, since an A spans two OUAC bands, which is one more reason to keep the percentage.

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