Laval score

Your Laval score takes into account your grades from every semester you were enrolled as a student, even for studies completed years ago.

It is not used in the calculation. Your semester GPA is used instead.

No.

No.

Certain programs have admission requirements that prevent a DEC holder from being immediately eligible. This applies to the following programs:

• Financial Analysis (certificate)
• Accounting – Introduction to the Profession (certificate)
• International Development and Humanitarian Action (certificate no longer offered)
• Vocational and Technical Education (certificate and bachelor’s – programs no longer offered; except for holders of a technical DEC)
• Finance (certificate)
• Supply Chain Management (certificate)
• Organizational Management (certificate)
• Human Resources Management (certificate)
• Journalism (certificate)
• Change Leadership (certificate)
• Labour Relations (certificate no longer offered)
• Industrial Relations (certificate – if studies completed before Winter 2018)

For these programs the Laval score is based on the IFD established using students’ R score if they were enrolled in the past five years.

Yes, if you took them in the same semester as courses that are part of your main program.

No, graduate-level courses are not included in your Laval score calculation. Certain programs account for them according to terms posted on the faculty websites, when they apply.

We use the IFD from your most recent semester enrolled in a given program. For example, if the most recent semester of enrolment on your transcript is Fall 2009, we use the IFD for 2009. If the most recent semester is Fall 2007, we use the IFD for 2007. If you participated in more than one university program, we use the IFD corresponding to the most recent semester of enrolment for each program. The GPA used for the calculation is the cumulative GPA for each program.

We use the IFD of a comparable program offered at Université Laval to calculate your cote de rendement universitaire – CRU (university academic performance score).

Your GPA is converted according to the following principle: every letter grade (A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc.) is considered equal from one university to another. So an A from your current university equals an A at Université Laval. The numerical value of your GPA is converted on a linear basis, so a GPA that translates to a bit above a B at your current university is converted to a GPA that is a bit above a B at Université Laval. Here are a few examples:

Example 1: A student from the University of Ottawa has a GPA of 7. This corresponds to a B+ on the university’s scale. So the student’s GPA will be converted to a B+ here at Université Laval, which equals 3.33.

Example 2: A student from McGill University has a GPA of 3.65. This corresponds to between a B+ and an A-, a little closer to an A-, on the university’s scale. So the student’s GPA will be converted to one that is between B+ and A- in our grading system.

The university credits we consider are those associated with learning activities that have a numerical grade that counts toward the Laval score. Credits for activities graded on a pass/fail basis are not considered because they do not go into the GPA calculation.

The Laval score is calculated for undergraduate programs leading to a bachelor’s degree, diploma, or certificate. It does not include any courses taken:

• At the graduate level
• Exclusively as part of short programs
• In special programs, such as abroad-only programs or customized programs for specific cohorts
• Exclusively as a non-degree student
• As qualifying (pre-university) courses

We will use the R score that the applicant would have had if they were leaving college without having earned any university credits.