OLSAS GPA Calculator
Quick answer: OLSAS converts every course grade to a 4.0 value with OUAC’s Undergraduate Grade Conversion Table, on the scale OUAC lists for your university, and weights it by course length (full-year 2, half 1). Your cumulative OLSAS GPA counts every attempt, including failed and repeated courses. Each law school then uses your record its own way: Toronto takes your best three full-time years, Queen’s your top two.
OLSAS GPA calculator
By year
| Year | Weight | GPA | Status |
|---|
What each Ontario law school looks at
| Law school | Its published method | Your GPA on it | What it publishes about competitive GPAs |
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How to use it
Pick your university: the calculator uses the conversion scale OUAC lists for it. Enter each course with its year, its length and your grade as it appears on your transcript (a percentage, or a letter where your university reports letters). Mark summer, part-time and intersession courses as “Summer”. The table under the result shows each year’s GPA and what each Ontario law school says it looks at.
How OLSAS calculates your GPA
From OUAC’s OLSAS GPA Calculations page: “OLSAS uses a 4.0 scale. We will convert your grades using the Undergraduate Grade Conversion Table and the scale noted for your university in the table. Do not attempt to reconcile alpha grades to any of the percentage scales.” “Where both letter and percentage grades are reported on the transcript, we will use the percentage grade, with the exception of the University of British Columbia, where we will use letter grades.”
“We calculate the cumulative average by adding all the course lengths and converted grades and dividing the total course lengths into the total OLSAS values from the conversion table. Note: The cumulative average is not an ‘average of the averages’.”
| Course length | OLSAS weight |
|---|---|
| Full-year course | 2 |
| Half-year or semester course | 1 |
| Three-quarter course | 1.5 |
| Lab course | 0.5 |
Years follow “the Ontario traditional academic year system”: two semesters make one year. A year with the equivalent of at least 3 full courses or 6 half courses is full-time (OLSAS duration F); summer, part-time and intersession courses in a calendar year are grouped together (duration S).
OUAC Undergraduate Grade Conversion Table
OUAC’s table, updated September 15, 2025, converts individual grades. A percentage scale applies to percentage marks and a letter scale to letter grades.
| OUAC value | Scale 1 | Scale 2 | Scale 3 | Scale 4 | Scale 5 | Scale 6 | Scale 7 | Scale 8 | Scale 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00 | 9 | 8 | 90–100 | 93–100 | 94–100 | 94–100 | A+ | A | A+ |
| 3.90 | 85–89 | 84–92 | 87–93 | 85–93 | A | ||||
| 3.80 | A | ||||||||
| 3.70 | 8 | 7 | 80–84 | 75–83 | 80–86 | 80–84 | A- | A- | |
| 3.30 | 7 | 6 | 77–79 | 72–74 | 75–79 | 75–79 | B+ | B+ | B+ |
| 3.00 | 73–76 | 69–71 | 70–74 | 70–74 | B | B | B | ||
| 2.70 | 6 | 5 | 70–72 | 66–68 | 65–69 | 65–69 | B- | B- | |
| 2.30 | 5 | 4 | 67–69 | 64–65 | 60–64 | 60–64 | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| 2.00 | 63–66 | 62–63 | 55–59 | 55–59 | C | C | C | ||
| 1.70 | 4 | 3 | 60–62 | 60–61 | 50–54 | C- | C- | ||
| 1.30 | 2 | 57–59 | 56–59 | D+ | D+ | D+ | |||
| 1.00 | 53–56 | 53–55 | 50–54 | D | D | D | |||
| 0.70 | 50–52 | 50–52 | D- | D- | |||||
| 0.00 | 3 | 1 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | E/F | E/F | E/F |
Which scale your university uses
| Scale | Type | Universities OUAC lists on it |
|---|---|---|
| Scale 1 | Numeric | none listed |
| Scale 2 | Numeric | none listed |
| Scale 3 | Percentage | Algoma, Bishop's, Brock, Cape Breton, Dalhousie, Guelph, Lakehead, Nipissing, OCAD, Prince Edward Island, Queen's, Regina, Saskatchewan, St. Francis Xavier, Toronto, Trent, Victoria, Waterloo, Western, Windsor |
| Scale 4 | Percentage | RMC |
| Scale 5 | Percentage | none listed |
| Scale 6 | Percentage | Memorial |
| Scale 7 | Letter | Acadia, Alberta, Athabasca, Brandon, Calgary, Carleton, Capilano, Concordia, Dalhousie, Laurentian, Laval, Lethbridge, McMaster, Moncton, Montreal, Mt. Allison, Mt. Royal, Mt. St. Vincent, New Brunswick, Ontario Tech, Ottawa, Quebec, Queen's, RMC, Royal Roads, Sherbrooke, Simon Fraser, St. Mary's, St. Thomas, Ste-Anne, Thompson Rivers, Toronto, Toronto Met, Trinity Western, UBC, UNBC, Victoria, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, Windsor, Winnipeg |
| Scale 8 | Letter | McGill, Quest |
| Scale 9 | Letter | Manitoba, York |
How each Ontario law school uses your GPA
OUAC: “Each law school may use a different GPA than OLSAS calculates in the undergraduate academic record, based on its own admission criteria.” What the eight schools say:
| Law school | How it uses your GPA (its own words) | Source |
|---|---|---|
| University of Toronto (Jackman Law) | “The admission GPA is calculated on undergraduate courses only, using the best three academic years (traditionally using both the fall and winter sessions per year) of full-time study from all years of undergraduate study.” | Admissions page read 2026-10-02 |
| Queen's University | “To be a competitive applicant, you should have at least an A- average (grade point average [GPA] of 3.7) in the top 2 years of your undergraduate degree program at a full course load and an LSAT score of at least 160.” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
| Western University | “The Admissions Committee considers the highest LSAT score and cumulative grade point average (GPA), which is based on all undergraduate university courses you received grades for. This includes grades obtained during spring and summer terms and on academic exchanges. However, if your cumulative GPA is not competitive, we will give greater weight to your last 2 years of full-time (or equivalent) undergraduate university study (defined as a minimum of 20 semestered courses).” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
| Osgoode Hall Law School (York) | “Successful applicants generally have at least a cumulative A- average (includes all years of undergraduate study) and an LSAT in the 85th percentile or better.” | OLSAS guide page September 2, 2026 |
| University of Ottawa | “Undergraduate academic performance is a significant factor in the evaluation process. Most successful applicants have a CGPA of A- or above. CGPA calculations are based on undergraduate grades.” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
| Toronto Metropolitan University (Lincoln Alexander) | “We will calculate the cumulative GPA for all your years of undergraduate study. We do not set a minimum GPA requirement for consideration. We calculate your GPA using the courses you completed by the end of the summer term in the year you apply.” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
| Lakehead University (Bora Laskin) | “We use a cumulative GPA calculated by OLSAS that takes into consideration all courses taken at the undergraduate level from an accredited university.” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
| University of Windsor | “Grade point average (GPA) and undergraduate (bachelor's) degree successfully completed by August 1 in the year of admission” | OLSAS guide page August 17, 2026 |
Where a school pools several years (Toronto, Queen’s, Western’s last two years), the calculator pools the courses of those years with their weights, the same way OLSAS builds a cumulative GPA, rather than averaging the yearly GPAs.
Worked example
A Western student (Scale 3) with full-year courses at 84%, 76% and 90% in one year: 84% is 3.70, 76% is 3.00 and 90% is 4.00. Each full-year course weighs 2, so the year’s GPA is (3.70 × 2 + 3.00 × 2 + 4.00 × 2) ÷ 6 = 21.40 ÷ 6 = 3.57. The same marks on Scale 4 would give 3.90, 3.70 and 3.90, a 3.83: the scale matters.
Frequently asked questions
How does OLSAS calculate my GPA?
Does OLSAS count failed and repeated courses?
Is the OLSAS GPA the same as the OMSAS GPA?
Which years count for the University of Toronto?
What counts as a full-time year?
What if my marks have decimals?
Do grades from outside Canada and the US count?
Sources
- OUAC — OLSAS GPA Calculations — updated August 17, 2026
- OUAC — Undergraduate Grade Conversion Table — updated September 15, 2025
- University of Toronto (Jackman Law) — admissions policies — read 2026-10-02
- Queen's University — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
- Western University — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
- Osgoode Hall Law School (York) — OLSAS guide page — September 2, 2026
- University of Ottawa — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
- Toronto Metropolitan University (Lincoln Alexander) — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
- Lakehead University (Bora Laskin) — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
- University of Windsor — OLSAS guide page — August 17, 2026
All read on 2026-10-02 on OUAC’s and the law schools’ own websites.