Engineering Pre-Core GPA Tracking Tool

The College of Engineering developed an Excel spreadsheet to assist you in tracking your Pre-Core GPA. The Pre-Core GPA is used to determine your eligibility to enter Pro-School. You are encouraged to download a copy of the file and enter your grades after each term. Use this tool to track your progress or investigate “what-if” scenarios.

With respect to repeating courses, the College of Engineering will follow Academic Regulation 20 (shown below) effective Fall term 2008. Please remember that grades of  “C” or better are required in technical coursework.

AR 20. Repeated Courses

If a student repeats an Oregon State University course, the grade from each attempt¹ will appear on the student's academic record but only the second attempt will count toward the student's institutional credits, requirements, and grade point average². An academic unit³ may, however, include subsequent attempts after the second attempt in their calculation and clearance of unit degree requirements and degree grade point average. A course may not be repeated on an S/U basis if it was taken previously on a normal grade basis⁴.

Download the spreadsheet here.

Footnotes:

¹ An attempt comprises a final grade in a course where the grade is: "A", "A–", "B+", "B", "B–", "C+", "C", "C–", "D+", "D", "D–", "F", "S", "U", "P", "NP" or an "I/Alternate Grade" (where the Alternate Grade is one of these grades).

² Recognized repeatable courses as defined in the Oregon State University course catalog, such as activity courses, research, seminars, and selected topics, do not come under this restriction. Additionally, if a course has been approved as a multiple repeatable course for credit and grade points, each attempt will be included in the institutional credits and grade point average until it reaches its defined limit (total allowable attempts or credit maximums for the course). Further, the Office of the Registrar will include all courses from the first repeat taken until it reaches the maximum total allowable attempts or credit maximums for the course. All subsequent repeats after the repeat maximum has been reached will be excluded from both institutional credits earned and grade point average calculations.

³ Academic Unit: College, School, or Department

⁴ Normal Grade Basis is defined as any grade of "A", "A–", "B+", "B", "B–", "C+", "C", "C–", "D+", "D", "D–", "F", or any "I/Alternate Grade" (where the Alternate Grade is one of these grades).