Engineering Pre-Core GPA Tracking Tool

The College of Engineering developed an Exceläspreadsheet 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.

The spreadsheet was also developed to help you understand the potential impacts of changes that the College will implement Fall term 2008.  The changes are;

  1. The minimum acceptable grade in Pre-Core and Pro-Core courses will be a “C” rather than the current “C-“, and
  2. The College will follow University policy on repeated courses (Academic Regulation 20).

Note that the first change will not affect you retroactively – that is, you will not be required to repeat any course completed prior to Fall term 2008 in which you earned a “C-“ or better.

As most of you know, the College has used all earned grades in technical coursework up to the first “C-“ or better when calculating GPA.  Effective Fall term 2008, the College will follow Academic Regulation 20 (shown below).

AR 20. Repeated Courses

Courses may be repeated once for grade replacement. Both grades will appear on the academic record, but only the second grade will be counted in the cumulative grade point average and toward graduation requirements. Courses taken more than two times will appear on the academic record but not count in the cumulative grade point average. Regardless of the number of times a course is repeated, credits earned will be counted only once for graduation requirements. Recognized repeatable courses, such as activity courses, research, seminars, and selected topics, do not come under this restriction. A student receiving an A-F grade can only replace such a grade in the GPA calculation with another A-F grade (not with an S/U grade.)

Students applying for admission to Pro-School in Fall 2008 or before will not be affected by these changes. 

Students applying for admission to Pro-School in Winter 2009 and after will be affected by these changes.

The spreadsheet calculates your current Pre-Core GPA based on your input of grades for the “Existing” policy and the “New” policy.

Download the spreadsheet here.