<p>I have been reading so much lately...did I read somewhere that if you complete your Senior Year with a 3.5 GPA that law schools will look at that only for your GPA and your LSAT?</p>
<p>Or was I dreaming.</p>
<p>Also, what is the possibility of transfering to another law school after your 1st year(a higher tier)?</p>
<p>law schools look at your cumulative gpa.</p>
<p>You were dreaming, or drugging.</p>
<p>Law schools look at the cumulative GPA from every college-level course you have taken before your first bachelors degree (including any college courses you took while in high school.)</p>
<p>Transferring...depends on the rank of the school you attend and where you want to go:</p>
<p>Tier 1 (any school ranked in the top 50) to Top 14: Need to be at least top 5% in your class. </p>
<p>Tier 2/3/4 (schools ranked below 50) to Top 14: Probably need to be number one in your class. </p>
<p>Tier 2/3/4 to Tier 1: Top 5-15% of your class, depending on what Tier 1 school. </p>
<p>Transferring among the Top 14 themselves, keeping in mind that the tiers among the Top 14 themselves are
YHS (Yale, Harvard, Stanford)
CCN (Chicago, Columbia, NYU)
PMBV (Penn, Michigan, Berkeley, Virginia)
DCNG (Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, Georgetown)</p>
<p>Transferring among the Top 14 themselves:
1) Up one tier: Top 25-30%? Not sure, exactly. Most people don't do this.
2) Transferring to YHS from a non-YHS T-14: Top 5% of your class.</p>
<p>There's also a "transfer apps" group on Yahoo that can provide more information.</p>
<p>Also the schools in the T-14 that are most "transfer friendly" are Georgetown (it gets a lot of crap for it) and NYU. There's also a part-time program at GULC with low median numbers that allows students to start as PT then become FT students second year (GULC gets crap for this too).</p>
<p>i have a quick semi-related question that i don't want to make a thread for: </p>
<p>when people refer to their gpa's, are they talking about their school gpa's or their lsac gpa? the lsac gpa is what law schools look at exclusively, right?</p>
<p>how about tier 2 to tier 2...
tier 3 to tier 3 or </p>
<p>tier 3 tier 2 etc.</p>
<p>The schools will look at both your LSAC gpa (as a uniform measure of how you stack up against the pool) and your college GPA (as they do get your transcripts and at top schools they know top programs at top schools)</p>
<p>your LSDAS GPA is more important.</p>