Brown S/NC and law school

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<p>I have been considering applying to law school and have some questions about how transcripts from Brown are perceived by admissions committees. I have also posted this in the Law School forum because I was not sure which would be more appropriate.</p>

<p>I graduated from Brown a few years ago. My LSAC GPA is 3.88, but I took four mandatory S/NC (pass/fail in Brown’s terms) courses (all of which I passed) and also studied abroad for a semester. All study abroad grades are translated into Brown transcripts as S/NC.</p>

<p>My questions are:</p>

<p>1) How will law schools interpret my GPA given the significant number of non-ABC grades on my transcript?</p>

<p>2) Does it matter that I could not have taken those courses for an ABC grade? As in, are they viewed differently than courses where I opted for S/NC over ABC?</p>

<p>3) Does anyone have any firsthand experience with a similar situation?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>If I recall, our transcript denotes mandatory s/nc so I would assume that those are treated differently. Unfortunately I can’t answer the rest. My uneducated guess is that with a good LSAT they won’t care.</p>

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<p>At least when I look at my transcript, it has a star next to the courses that are mandatory S/NC, so law schools will know that. You could probably email the pre-law advisor at Brown with other questions.</p>