Harvard average GPA: the reported figure and its scale
Harvard’s 2025–26 Common Data Set reports a 4.22 average high-school GPA for fall 2025 first-year entrants. It is not labeled as an unweighted average.
Reported average high-school GPA
4.22Fall 2025
- Student group
- Enrolled first-year students · Harvard College
- Scale / measure
- Weighting method unspecified; do not treat 4.22 as unweighted or divide it by 4.0
GPA reported for 99.10% of the entering class.
C12 reports 4.22 without a weighting explanation; C11 separately uses 4.0 GPA bands. Retain both source definitions instead of recalculating a mean from the bands.
Harvard Common Data Set 2025–26 ↗C11–C12, page 10 · Checked 2026-08-31
Harvard does not turn this reported class average into a grade requirement. Applicants should keep their own school’s grading scale and available course rigor attached to any comparison.
The requirement, not a prediction
No single numeric cutoff is recorded in this snapshot. That does not imply that all grades are competitive or that there are no academic requirements.
How to use this information
- Academic rigor is evaluated in the context of courses available at your school.
- A graduate-school or Extension threshold must not be presented as a Harvard College rule.
- Strong academic performance is one part of a complete application; GPA alone cannot predict the decision.
First-year, transfer and enrolled GPA are different
This page covers first-year admission. A university course calculator measures entered coursework after enrollment and must not be treated as a high-school admission recalculation. Keep the source’s scale and course set attached to any number you compare.
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