Sources, scope and review dates
Calculators are arithmetic. The interpretation around them comes from named primary and specialist sources. The Sources, scope and review dates method, source evidence, and calculation boundary are shown below.
GPA conversion sources: College Board
The College Board reference explains a common 4.0 calculation and warns that it may not reproduce a student's true school GPA. Its guidance also distinguishes weighted and unweighted GPA.
- Entity
- GPA calculation or policy
- Scope
- Planning and method verification
- Boundary
- Not an official credential evaluation
GPA conversion sources: Common App
For GPA records, common App documentation demonstrates that the reported scale and weighting status are separate fields. Its direct-admissions guidance uses 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and 100 scales and treats offers as conditional on record review.
GPA conversion sources: LSAC
For GPA records, lSAC is the controlling source for the LSAC/CAS page. Its current transcript-summarization policy and conversion table are linked directly rather than copied into an unofficial calculator.
GPA conversion sources: World Education Services
WES is cited to show that international GPA equivalency can be a credential-evaluation workflow, not merely division by a scale maximum. The GPA label stays explicit in this method record.
GPA conversion sources: Update policy
For GPA records, links and visible policy descriptions were reviewed for this build on 2026-09-19. Arithmetic code is tested locally on every release. If a source changes its policy, the explanatory page should be updated before its review date changes.
GPA conversion sources: References used for this GPA method
These named references provide method evidence for the GPA terminology, calculation context, and policy boundary stated on this page. The method evidence remains visible beside every linked source.