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How Washington University in St. Louis calculates GPA
Washington University in St. Louis calculates GPA as a credit-weighted average: multiply each course’s grade points by its credits, add them up, and divide by total credits. The detail that matters is the grade scale.
The WashU grade scale — what makes it specific
A+ rule: On the WashU scale, A+ is awarded but capped at 4.0, and the scale runs down to D- at 0.7.
Failing grade: Washington University in St. Louis uses "F" for a failing grade (0.0).
Academic standing
semester or cumulative GPA below 2.0 triggers Academic Notice; 2.0-2.5 is treated as an early-risk 'Academic Concern' range
Latin honors at graduation
There is no university-wide cut-off at Washington University in St. Louis — each college sets its own. Arts and Sciences. WashU sets honors per school and the schools are not comparable - Arts and Sciences uses fixed percentile cut-offs, McKelvey Engineering a rolling three-year top-10%.
Dean’s List
Washington University in St. Louis names students to its Dean’s List at a term GPA of 3.6 (semester GPA) with 14 units of quality-graded coursework.
Sourced from the Arts & Sciences bulletin; other undergraduate schools (Engineering, Olin Business, etc.) may set their own Dean's List criteria not confirmed here.
Academic probation and dismissal
Academic Notice / Academic Concern: semester or cumulative GPA below 2.0 triggers Academic Notice; 2.0-2.5 is treated as an early-risk 'Academic Concern' range.
Dismissal: not given as a separate fixed GPA; dismissal follows persistent failure to progress.
Sourced from the Arts & Sciences undergraduate policies page; other undergraduate schools may set their own probation standards not confirmed here.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read on one of these pages, all published by Washington University in St. Louis itself. Nothing here comes from a ranking site or an aggregator.
- bulletin.wustl.edu — Latin honors.
- bulletin.wustl.edu — Dean’s List.
- bulletin.wustl.edu — academic standing.
- registrar.washu.edu — grading scale and GPA calculation.
Good to know
Latin honors are awarded on a per-school, rolling-percentile basis rather than fixed university-wide GPA cutoffs, so the GPA needed for a given honor varies by school and by graduating cohort.
Every figure here was read from WashU’s own registrar or catalog. Where a rule is set by an individual college rather than the institution, the page says so instead of presenting one college’s number as everyone’s.
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