<p>If I take community college courses during the semester after my junior year, will these grades be factored in for law school admissions? Will they have the same weight? and if i take many of these summer courses at a CC to boost my gpa will adcoms be suspicious or not regard them highly?</p>
<p>Community college courses will not be factored in to your college GPA unless you can transfer the course to your school (even then it will simply show up as cr). However, the LSAC requires that you send transcripts from all colleges you attended and the course you took at CC will show up on your LSAC transcript.</p>
<p>Keep in mind taking one course at CC is not going to do anything for your cause. The adcoms will see both the LSAC transcript and the actual transcripts from your college. If you took a basketweaving course, of course it would be circumspect so I would consider taking a course that would have some "meat" instead of a pure fluff course. However, no one will be able to give you a definitive answer on what will the adcoms think, because we will nto be in the room.</p>
<p>I agree with sybbie. If I were in the room though...I would be paricularly suspicious of CCC courses taken after junior year. CC is supplosed to duplicate the first two years og college. Someone with 3 years of credit normally wouldn't take them. Unless there was some special situation, if I were in the room, I'd think the only reason you took them was to boost your GPA a bit.</p>
<p>So dual enrollment courses taken during high school (with credit from CC) would be factored in as well?</p>
<p>I believe dual-credit courses are factored, but you should check LSAC to be sure.</p>
<p>As for taking CC courses, the best thing to do to not seem shady would be to take language courses. Then it can be implied that you wanted to begin learning a particular language but didn't have the time/room at your uni to do it. As for "basketweaving" courses, you can take as many as you want. In the end it is your LSDAS GPA that matters so if you can bump it up to any significant degree that's good. But realize that different adcoms will look at this in different ways. I doubt any will view it negatively but some may take into account what you've done and just subtract from your GPA as is appropriate when evaluating you.</p>
<p>Would taking a course for DE credit be worth it if I though I would get a B/B+ instead of an A, since it could be factored into GPA for law school?</p>
<p>Unless your GPA is pretty low a B/B+ (which will translate into a 3.0/3.33) will bring your GPA down. So yeah, if you take a CC course, be serious and get the A/A+.</p>
<p>one thing i've learned is that even when you don't take throwaway classes like "basketweaving", community college courses are definitely easier, regardless of what type of class it is; i'd say take any cc class you can since it can't hurt you.</p>
<p>i'm trying to boost my gpa up myself and took two classes last summer, getting two a's fairly easily.</p>
<p>elcamino, When you talk about taking CC classes the semester after your junior year, are you talking about summer or fall? I currently attend UC Berkeley and we are not allowed to take Berkeley and CC classes at the same time (aka: concurrent enrollment). So what this means to me is in fall and spring I take only Berkeley classes, but this summer I will be taking a CC class.</p>
<p>The reality right now is that students (and/or parents) are struggling more than ever to pay for college. AP has a headline as I write this that says: Families await sharpest tuition increases in years</p>
<p>At my school I can pay over $1000 for a four unit course over the summer. Or...I can go to a CC and pay $60 for a three unit course that will bring me that much further to graduating and at a fraction of the cost.</p>
<p>What I understand is that for law school they want to know you can think critically, logically, and write very well. If you are afraid of the adcoms casting a suspicious eye at the lone CC class you have, then go ahead and make it something like a philosophy course on logic (intro or otherwise), creative writing in the English dept, or something that has to do with critical thinking. I'm sure that will be viewed a lot more highly than "intro to cooking with chocolate" and probably won't even get a second glance at all.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>