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Grades & GPA 49 tools
- Semester GPA Calculator Calculate your semester GPA on the standard 4.0 scale from letter grades and credit hours, with the quality points behind every grade.
- Cumulative GPA & Target Semester Forecasting Calculator Calculate your combined Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) using credit-hour weighting and determine the exact GPA required next semester to hit your target graduation threshold.
- High School Weighted GPA & AP/IB Course Rigor Calculator Calculate both your Unweighted (4.0 scale) and Weighted (5.0 scale) high school GPA, evaluating the transcript boost provided by Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and Honors courses.
- Unweighted GPA Calculator The cumulative average for unweighted gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- AP Course Weight Calculator The cumulative average for ap course weight plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- IB Course Weight Calculator The cumulative average for ib course weight plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Honors Weight Calculator The cumulative average for honors weight plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Dual Enrollment Weight Calculator The cumulative average for dual enrollment weight plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GPA to Letter Grade & International Grade Scale Calculator Convert a 4.0 or 4.33 numerical GPA into equivalent Letter Grades (A+, A, A-, B+), Percentage ranges (0–100%), UK Honours Classifications (First, 2:1), and European ECTS grades.
- Letter Grade to GPA Calculator Convert any letter grade to GPA points on a 4.0 scale — including plus/minus variants, percentage ranges and the weighted AP/IB equivalent.
- Percentage to Letter Grade Calculator Convert any test percentage into a US letter grade and 4.0 GPA point using the standard 10-point scale.
- International Grade Conversion Calculator The cumulative average for international grade conversion plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- UK Grade to US GPA Calculator The cumulative average for uk grade to us gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Australian Grade to US Calculator The cumulative average for australian grade to us plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Canadian Grade to US Calculator The cumulative average for canadian grade to us plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- European Grade to US Calculator The cumulative average for european grade to us plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- German Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for german grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- French Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for french grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Indian Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for indian grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Chinese Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for chinese grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Brazilian Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for brazilian grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Japanese Grade to GPA Calculator The cumulative average for japanese grade to gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Grade Points Required Calculator The cumulative average for grade points required plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Credits to Raise GPA Calculator The cumulative average for credits to raise gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Finals Grade Needed Calculator The cumulative average for finals grade needed plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Midterm Grade Needed Calculator The cumulative average for midterm grade needed plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Assignment Grade Impact Calculator The cumulative average for assignment grade impact plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Extra Credit Impact Calculator The cumulative average for extra credit impact plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Dropped Grade Impact Calculator The cumulative average for dropped grade impact plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Curve Impact Calculator The cumulative average for curve impact plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Class Rank Estimate Calculator The cumulative average for class rank estimate plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Top 10% GPA Required Calculator The cumulative average for top 10% gpa required plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Dean's List Requirement Calculator The cumulative average for dean's list requirement plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Latin Honors Cutoff Calculator The cumulative average for latin honors cutoff plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Summa Cum Laude GPA Calculator The cumulative average for summa cum laude gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Magna Cum Laude GPA Calculator The cumulative average for magna cum laude gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Cum Laude GPA Calculator The cumulative average for cum laude gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Academic Probation Risk Calculator The academic probation risk payment, total interest and true cost of borrowing for any principal, APR and term — the same amortisation maths every lender’s disclosure uses. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Academic Dismissal Risk Calculator The academic dismissal risk payment, total interest and true cost of borrowing for any principal, APR and term — the same amortisation maths every lender’s disclosure uses. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GPA Recovery Plan Calculator The cumulative average for gpa recovery plan plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Transfer GPA Impact Calculator The cumulative average for transfer gpa impact plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Major GPA vs Overall Calculator The cumulative average for major gpa vs overall plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Graduate GPA Requirement Calculator The cumulative average for graduate gpa requirement plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Med School GPA Benchmark Calculator Attainment of med school gpa benchmark against a target, with the absolute gap and the weighted contribution for scorecard roll-ups. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Law School GPA Benchmark Calculator Attainment of law school gpa benchmark against a target, with the absolute gap and the weighted contribution for scorecard roll-ups. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Business School GMAT GPA Calculator The cumulative average for business school gmat gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PhD Program GPA Calculator The cumulative average for phd program gpa plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Postdoc GPA Expectation Calculator The cumulative average for postdoc gpa expectation plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Licensure Exam GPA Correlation Calculator The cumulative average for licensure exam gpa correlation plus the forward-looking half: what the next year must average to reach a target. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
Standardized Tests 50 tools
- Digital SAT Total Score & Percentile Calculator Calculate your combined Digital SAT Total Score (400–1600), national percentile rankings, and college readiness benchmark status across Reading/Writing and Math.
- SAT Math Score Calculator The 200–800 math section score and where it sits relative to the 530 college-readiness benchmark College Board attaches. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- SAT Reading Score Calculator The Reading-and-Writing test score on the 10–40 scale that feeds the 800-point EBRW section. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Official College Board & ACT Concordance Calculator Convert between SAT and ACT composite scores using the official consensus concordance table developed jointly by the College Board and ACT, Inc.
- ACT to SAT Conversion Calculator Turning an ACT composite into the SAT total that occupies the same national percentile. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- ACT Composite & STEM Score Calculator Calculate your official ACT Composite score, STEM score, and national percentile using official ACT Inc. rounding rules (0.5 and above rounds up).
- ACT Math Calculator The 60-question, 60-minute math section scaled to 1–36 — the ACT section with the steepest coaching gains. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- ACT English Calculator The 75-question usage/mechanics section — the ACT’s most coachable, because its rules are a closed set. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- ACT Reading Calculator The four-passage, 35-minute reading section whose scaled table punishes blanking on the last passage. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- ACT Science Calculator The data-interpretation gauntlet — six to seven figure-packed passages that test experimental logic, not memorized science. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PSAT Score Calculator The October junior-year SAT rehearsal on a 320–1520 scale — the same ruler as the SAT, one notch down the experience curve. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- National Merit Cutoff Calculator The state-level PSAT index that opens the National Merit semifinalist door, and the margin above or below it. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- AP Exam Score Calculator The weighted raw composite that the Chief Reader’s committee cuts into 1–5s each June — with the generic bands that fit most subjects. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- AP Credit Hours Calculator How much of a first-year course load the AP portfolio actually replaces under each school family’s policy. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- IB Score Calculator The six-subject 7-point sum before the TOK/extended-essay core — the bulk of the 45-point IB total. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- IB Diploma Points Calculator The 45-point headline of the IB: six subject grades plus the TOK×EE core matrix, with the diploma rulebook attached. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GRE Quantitative Calculator The 130–170 quantitative band, re-centered for the shorter GRE: two adaptive-ish sections now totaling 27 scored questions plus unscored variants. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GRE Verbal Calculator The reading-and-vocabulary band of the GRE — same 130–170 ruler as quant but a softer, wider population curve. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GRE Analytical Writing Calculator The two-essay analytical-writing band: one critique of an argument, one opinion essay, both human-rated 0–6. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GRE Percentile Calculator The percentile translation of each 130–170/AW band using recent cohort means — the rescale made percentile literacy mandatory. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT Total Calculator The post-2024 GMAT: three equally-weighted sections (Verbal, Quant, Data Insights) summed onto the 205–805 scale. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT Quant Calculator The Focus Edition’s 60–90 quantitative section score: problem-solving and data-sufficiency items in a 45-minute computer-adaptive run. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT Verbal Calculator The 60–90 Focus verbal band built from reading comprehension and logical-reasoning sets — sentence correction is gone. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT IR Calculator The classic GMAT’s Integrated Reasoning section: 12 multi-source questions scored 1–8 with brutally all-or-nothing part rules. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT AWA Calculator The 30-minute analysis-of-an-argument essay rated 0–6 — the GMAT’s one writing signal to admissions. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- GMAT Percentile Calculator The percentile ranking that makes a GMAT total mean anything — computed on the GMAT-taker pool, not the college population. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- LSAT Score Calculator The 120–180 scaled score law schools read: ~100 logical-reasoning, reading and analytic questions equated across administrations. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- LSAT Percentile Calculator Where a score stands in the national taker distribution — the number admissions dashboards actually rank on. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- MCAT Total Calculator The 472–528 sum of four 115–132 section bands — the single number medical admissions committees screen hardest. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- MCAT Percentile Calculator Two percentile lenses on one score: the full taker pool (includes unprepared pre-meds) and the matriculant pool (the real competitive field). Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- USMLE Step 1 Score Calculator The conversion from question-bank accuracy to the 3-digit scale — kept because every NBME form W/H printout still speaks three digits. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- USMLE Step 2 CK Score Calculator The scored clinical-knowledge exam that inherited Step 1’s ranking role when Step 1 went pass/fail. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- NCLEX Pass Rate Calculator A pass model for the adaptive NCLEX: the exam ends at the confidence line, so probability comes from preparation shape, not item count. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Bar Exam Pass Probability Calculator The pass equation: MBE scaled + written scaled against a per-state cut line, and the probability implied by the margin. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CPA Exam Section Score Calculator One of four (now core + discipline) 0–99 section scores; 75 passes, and every candidate knows the line intimately. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CFA Pass Probability Calculator A two-signal model for the charter exams: how much curriculum you actually know and how the clocks feel under exam pressure. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CFP Pass Probability Calculator The CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER board exam: 170 questions across planning domains, pass line scaled to ~70 % correctness. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CMA Pass Probability Calculator The IMA management-accounting exam: two parts, MC-plus-essay, scaled 0–500 with a 360 pass line and a hard ceiling at 500. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CIA Pass Rate Calculator The Institute of Internal Auditors’ three-part certification: 75 %-scaled pass line, English-plus-practice questions, low first-attempt rates. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- SHRM-CP Score Calculator The HR certification with half its items as situational judgment — behavior, not memorization, under the SHRM Body of Applied Skills. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PMP Pass Probability Calculator The Project Management Professional exam model: 180 items, achievement-level scoring across People/Process/Business domains. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CISSP Pass Rate Calculator The security-management credential with the infamous “think like a manager, not an engineer” rule and a 700/1000 cut. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- AWS Exam Score Calculator Amazon’s 100–1000 band with the 720 cut for Associate exams — reported with per-domain bar charts, not a raw count. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Google Cert Score Calculator Google’s certification band: a straight 70 % of a 50–60-item test, with domain breakdowns in the score report. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Microsoft Cert Score Calculator The 700/1000 pass mark across Microsoft role-based exams — Fundamentals through Expert, same ruler. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Praxis Score Calculator The teacher-licensure 100–200 scale whose passing line is set by each state board, not ETS. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- TOEFL Score Calculator The iBT 0–120 score built from four 0–30 skill bands — the English gate for North-American admissions. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- IELTS Score Calculator The 0–9 half-band system where the overall is the four skill means — Academic and General Training share the ruler. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CELPIP Score Calculator Canada’s language benchmark conversion: CELPIP bands step into CLB levels on the published immigration crosswalk. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Duolingo English Test Calculator The at-home adaptive English test’s 10–160 score and its concordance onto the IELTS/TOEFL rulers. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
College Admissions 49 tools
- College Admissions Acceptance Rate & Yield Calculator Calculate university selectivity metrics, including Acceptance Rate, Admissions Yield (matriculation rate), and rejection ratios from IPEDS institutional admissions data.
- College Admissions Chances & Academic Profile Calculator Estimate your statistical admission probability (Reach, Target, Safety) by comparing your GPA and SAT/ACT scores against a target college’s Middle 50% interquartile admissions range.
- Application Essay Word Count Calculator How close your draft sits to the prompt’s cap, plus the seconds an exhausted reader actually spends on it. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Financial Aid EFC Calculator A simplified replay of the federal need-analysis formula: taxed-and-protected income at 22 %, parent net worth at 12 %, student assets at 20 %. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- FAFSA EFC Calculator The income-driven shortcut of the 2024-25 FAFSA: a raised auto-zero threshold and a sharper in-college divisor than the legacy formula used. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- CSS Profile Cost Calculator How the 240-college institutional methodology prices your family: flatter income rates but real assessments on home equity and non-custodial households. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- FAFSA Student Aid Index (SAI) & Expected Family Contribution Calculator Estimate your Student Aid Index (SAI)—the official federal metric replacing EFC under the FAFSA Simplification Act—to forecast federal Pell Grants and university need-based financial aid.
- Need-Based Aid Calculator The aid-office arithmetic: cost minus index is your need, grants against it is your coverage, and whatever is left is your actual bill. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Merit Aid Estimate Calculator A repricing of the standard private-college merit ladder — named full rides at the top, half- and quarter-tuition bands below, keyed to GPA plus test floor. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Scholarship Search ROI Calculator Treats scholarship hunting as a wage: expected dollars divided by the hours the essays and forms actually cost. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- College True Net Price & Degree Cost Calculator Calculate the true out-of-pocket "Net Price" of a university degree by subtracting non-repayable gift aid (merit scholarships, federal grants) from the total published Cost of Attendance.
- True Cost of Attendance Calculator The all-in bill students actually pay: the official COA plus the unlisted travel, tech and insurance that never appear on the award letter. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Room & Board Cost Calculator The real estate decision behind enrollment: institutional room-and-board priced against a year of renting, utilities and furnishing included. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Meal Plan Cost Calculator Converts an opaque term contract into a single dinner-bill number you can hold against grocery carts and campus cafés. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Textbook Cost Calculator What course materials really cost after rental discounts and the resale you get back at the end of term. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Technology Fee Calculator The per-credit or flat campus technology assessment that never shows up in the headline tuition line, priced across a degree. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Student Activity Fee Calculator The compulsory campus events fund measured honestly: what you remit against what a comparable night out would cost. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Health Fee Calculator The two-path decision every student faces: keep family insurance and pay clinic fees per visit, or buy the campus plan for full coverage. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Transportation Cost Calculator The invisible line item of choosing college far from home: holiday shuttles priced by car, plane or rail, permit included. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Personal Expense Calculator The discretionary slice colleges bundle into one vague “personal expenses” allowance, disaggregated into what students actually spend. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Study Abroad Cost Calculator What the semester out of the country actually adds once program fees, double tuition, flights and on-site life stack up against aid that travels. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Greek Life Cost Calculator All-in fraternity/sorority cost: one-time intake fees, recurring dues, chapter housing and the relentless event spend. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Sports Cost Calculator The full price of playing college club sports, which scholarship athletes pretend does not exist: dues, travel, gear and the federation tax. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Club Membership Calculator A professional or social club membership priced like a subscription: hard event value plus an honest networking credit against dues and initiation. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Parking Cost Calculator The permit-vs-daily-rate arithmetic every commuter student re-solves each August, with the break-even visit count stated outright. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- College Total Cost Calculator Project the full four-year cost of a degree with annual tuition inflation, subtract grants and scholarships, and find the monthly savings needed to fund it.
- 4-Year vs 6-Year Grad Calculator The full invoice for a fifth and sixth year: extra billed costs, salaries never earned, and ten years of interest riding on the borrowed difference. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Transfer Timeline Calculator Turns the transfer-credit audit into a calendar: what the new school keeps, what it charges you to re-buy, and how many terms you actually have left. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Community College Savings Calculator What starting at a community college saves against sitting in the same lecture halls at a university, with tuition inflation applied to both legs. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- In-State vs Out-of-State Calculator The price of leaving home state: the tuition gap net of whatever merit the away school dangles, plus financing cost. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Public vs Private Cost Calculator Net-price-to-net-price comparison of the flagship and the private college, with the financing interest honestly attached. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Liberal Arts vs Research Calculator Prices the classic liberal-arts-vs-big-state question honestly: the sticker gap against the LAC’s famously outsized PhD and funded-grad-school pipeline. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Online vs On-Campus Calculator The full economics of online versus residential: the fee gap plus the income you keep by living where you already work. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Accelerated Program Value Calculator Whether the summer loads, CLEP credits or 3-semester year are worth their price: a saved year of cost plus a head start on salary, minus the program premium. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Graduate School Cost Calculator The honest invoice for grad school: billed costs after funding, plus the salary you did not earn while in the library. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Professional School Cost Calculator Law/med/business-school truth billing: tuition and life for three years, plus the salary those three years displaced, plus financing carry. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PhD Stipend Value Calculator The five-year economics of a funded doctorate: after-tax stipend, tuition waiver, fee coverage — and the hourly wage underneath the whole deal. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Fellowship Value Calculator Converts a named fellowship (stipend, tuition, fees, insurance) into the total dollars it actually puts in front of you, tax-adjusted. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- TA/RA Position Value Calculator Prices a teaching or research assistantship the way a job offer should be priced: cash after tax, tuition remission, subsidies, and the resulting hourly rate. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Work-Study Award Calculator Converts the work-study line on the aid letter into the actual schedule it demands — hours per week, per term, at real campus wages. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Part-Time Work Income Calculator What a realistic part-time schedule actually pays over an academic year — term shifts plus a real summer — and what it replaces in loans. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Parent PLUS Loan Need Calculator How much the parent-borrowed PLUS loan has to cover after SAI, student loans and grants are exhausted, priced at current PLUS rates. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Private Loan Need Calculator What the last-resort borrowing layer actually becomes: the annual gap grown through in-school interest, amortized over ten post-graduation years. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Total Loan Burden Calculator Stacks undergrad, graduate and parent PLUS into the one number lenders actually look at: total education payments against gross household income. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Debt-to-Income for Grad Calculator The student-loan version of a mortgage qualifying test: the 10-year payment measured against gross monthly pay. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- Loan Forgiveness Eligibility Calculator Where you sit on the three forgiveness roads — IDR term expiry, PSLF’s 120 payments, or the teacher program — and what you still have to pay before the cancel button. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PSLF Benefit Calculator The Public Service Loan Forgiveness scoreboard: what income-driven payments cost over 120 qualifying months against what the standard plan would have eaten. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- IBR Payment Calculator Income-Based Repayment computed the way the servicer does: 10 % of discretionary income capped at the 10-year standard payment. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.
- PAYE Payment Calculator Pay As You Earn: 10 % of true discretionary income (no 150 % FPL shelter), capped at what the standard plan would charge. Free, instant, with the worked calculation and interpretation ranges.