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You need to total the GPA’s from each course you have taken then divide by the number of courses. Don’t add together the total from each college because you didn’t take the same number of courses from each college (I assume)

Take the weighted average:

[Sum of ] (Credits * Grade Point) / (Total Credits Attempted)

Where sum is the total you add up for every credit*grade point from every single class you took in your college career with some exceptions (see below)

Where Grade points are A=4, B=3, etc. On a +/- system you need to adjust such that A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, etc.

In total credits attempted you would not include “W” grades since those had no weight in the formula; Do include F’s however (hopefully you got none of those!)

So let’s say you took only 2 courses in your life, both being 3 credits and you earned an A in one and a D in the other:

[(3*4) + (3*1)] / 6 = 2.5

Also, you wouldn’t include any remedial-type courses that you may have taken at a CC. Common examples are introductory algebra classes or basic writing courses due to a low placement test score.

It’s easiest to do this in a spreadsheet so you can keep track of the numbers easily and not make any errors nor have to do the actual calculations more than once — it’s easy to screw up somewhere on a calculator with so many entries.