<p>I have heard that law schools only care about the #(GPA), not the rigor of the courses. Then is it still okay to take very easy courses like music, phys.ed., art, dance, etc. to satisfy your grades? Law schools do not care about it at all?</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that they don't care about it ** at all **. But I think what is accurate is that they don't care about rigor as much as they ought to care. You might want to talk to ariesathena about this one.</p>
<p>I am actually in an unusual situation. I am planning to transfer to a different school for my junior year. Let's say that I took an elementary microbio. course(for non-microbio. majors) at the previous school. After transferring, I took an intro microbio course(for microbio majors) to achieve my ideal highest GPA. And let's say that some of the courses I took at the transferred school are (as similar as/almost the same as) OR (only slightly more advanced than) the courses I took at the previous school. </p>
<p>So my question is, how will law schools evaluate/think of this?</p>
<p>Sadly, the answer seems to be that the adcoms probably won't even notice. The fact is, adcoms don't really spend a lot of time parsing transcripts to see exactly what you took and how it relates to other things you took. And I think that while some of it has to do with adcoms not knowing how to properly parse a transcript, another big part is that they don't WANT to know how to do it. From what I've seen, adcoms for the most part, just want to see top grades, and don't really care about how you get them, as long as you get them. Hence, a 'A' in a do-nothing course is better than a 'B' in a difficult course. Sad but true. </p>
<p>I'm waiting for ariesathena to come back from vacation, because I'm sure she has some rather choice words to say about this subject.</p>
<p>i thought it was better to take a tougher course than breeze through and get an A in a lesser course?</p>
<p>From what ive read for law school admissions class difficulty is a small portion of what they consider for admissions. Surely, underwater basketweaving or coaching basketball will not look great on your application, but a lot of writing courses in which you perform well in will certainly help. It seems that math really doesnt matter so I wouldnt bother taking tough chemistry and calculus courses.</p>