GPACalcTools does not put a made-up "academic team" on its byline. Every guide, table and calculator note here is written and checked by one person, and this page explains what that actually means for a site about grades.
Chris Terry
Founder and Editor
Chris built GPACalcTools and the other calculator sites in the Encore Editorial network through Encore Promotional Products. He is not a teacher, a school counselor or an admissions officer, and this site does not pretend otherwise: the byline on every grading guide reads "Founder & Editor" because that is the actual job. What he brings is a habit of checking a grading rule against how a real transcript or registrar's policy actually states it, rather than repeating whatever the last search result said.
His byline appears on How to Calculate GPA, GPA Scale and Letter Grades, Weighted vs. Unweighted GPA, What Is a Good GPA, How to Raise Your GPA, and GPA Needed for College. He edits the same class of grading and payroll math across the wider Encore network, including TimecardTools.
Before a page with his byline goes live: every worked GPA or grade example is run by hand a second time with different numbers, not just checked for internal consistency. Any claim about a grading convention, the 4.0 scale, the common AP or honors bonus, a percentage-to-letter cutoff, is labeled as a convention rather than a rule, because no single national body sets it; individual schools and districts do. Where the site cites an outside source, such as how the Common App asks students to self-report a GPA scale, that claim is traced to the organization's own published guidance rather than a secondhand summary. Worked examples use round, clearly hypothetical grades and credit hours so nobody mistakes an illustration for a transcript.
Why there is no guidance-counselor byline here
Some education sites put a school counselor's or admissions consultant's name on every page, whether or not that person wrote a word of it. GPACalcTools does not do that. If a page here ever carries a credentialed reviewer's byline, it will be because that person genuinely wrote or reviewed the page, and this section will name the credential so you can check it. Until then, every guide is written by a founder who flags, repeatedly, that a grading convention can vary by school and that a calculator result is a planning number, not a substitute for reading your own school's grading policy.
How to reach us
Spotted a grade-point value, a weighting bonus, or a percentage cutoff that does not match how your school actually grades? Use the contact form. Messages go to Chris directly, and a correction to a published figure is dated on the page it appears on, not quietly rewritten.