The GPA Upload Tool
allows high school staff to use the secure Maryland College Aid Processing
System (MDCAPS)
to verify and report all high school seniors’
cumulative unweighted GPAs, from their first semester or end of senior year
cumulative GPA from high school. This simple upload will notify the Maryland
Higher Education Commission (MHEC) about all students’ potential eligibility
for consideration of various state aid programs such as: the Guaranteed Access
(GA) Grant, which is the largest need-based grant in the state, the Maryland
Community College Promise Scholarship, which pays for tuition after all other
non-loan aid has been applied, or the Teaching Fellows for Maryland
Scholarship, which pays for tuition and fees and room and board.
WHO SHOULD SIGN UP TO
VERIFY A GPA?
High school staff who have access to
grades and transcripts for high school seniors.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
Complete the GPA Upload Tool Request Form only if you do not have an MDCAPS account.
WHAT PROGRAMS DO I REPORT GPAs
FOR?
You must verify based upon the
student’s cumulative, unweighted GPA for the following programs:
|
Program Name
|
Unweighted Cumulative GPA
Requirement
|
Required Term GPA
|
Timeframe to Report GPAs
|
|
Guaranteed Access Grant
|
2.5
|
1st
Semester of Senior Year in High School
|
January 15 -
May 15
(For priority
consideration GPAs must be reported by April 1)
|
|
Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship
|
2.3
|
1st
Semester of Senior Year OR End of Senior Year in High School
|
January 15 - June
15
|
|
Teaching Fellows for Maryland Scholarship
|
3.3
|
1st
Semester of Senior Year in High School
|
February 1 –
April 15
|
MHEC does not accept rounding of GPAs:
2.50 or 2.51 = Eligible
2.48 or 2.49 = Ineligible
VERIFICATION TIPS
Start reporting GPA information in
MDCAPS after 1st semester grades of senior year in high school are
available.
If the high school does not have the student’s
social security or MDCAPS ID number to report the GPA information, the student may
complete the GPA
Upload Tool Student Form, and submit the form to the respective high
school that contains the student’s MDCAPS ID number.
Report the GPA
information as follows under Semester
Reported column:
·
“Fall” if the GPA information being reported is the student’s
Unweighted Cumulative GPA earned at the end of their first semester of their
senior year in high school.
·
“Spring” if the GPA information being reported is the student’s
Unweighted Cumulative GPA earned at the end of their senior year in high
school.
ACCOUNT ACCESS
If your MDCAPS account is inactive,
email fafsa.mhec@maryland.gov for assistance.
To learn more about the GPA Upload Process, click on GPA Upload Tool Presentation
