A screenshot of the GPA estimator page. It includes a series of text boxes for entry of the current semester's grades, and previous semester's GPA.

The GPA estimator page in its final state.

University GPA Estimator

July 1, 2015

A utility for estimating a student's GPA.

This was a tool I worked on in conjunction with the registrar's office, which was one of the first web applications I developed as a student worker. They wanted to create a tool that students and their advisors could use to enter their expected grades near the end of the semester, in order to get an estimate of their GPA. Functionally it was a pretty simple project, and really only required some javascript code and getting the business requirements correct. A student enters their grades for a semester, and the number of credits for their particular courses, which are used together to calculate their semester GPA. They could then also enter their current cumulative gpa and total credit hours, which would allow them to observe the impact that a semester might have on their cumulative GPA. Although a low complexity project, it proved its utility quite quickly and has remained mostly unchanged since its creation.