confusion with LSAC GPA and UGPA

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hello, I just signed up because I'm having trouble understanding how LSAC calculates my UGPA. I think my situation is not as straight forward as the website puts it. This is my situation. I have an overall gpa of a 3.493 and a cumulative gpa of 3.516 from the institution--FAU--that I am currently going to. However, I have transferred from 2 other institutions, University of Texas Arlington and PBSU. At UTA i had a GPA of 3.2 and at PBSU i had a 4.0 GPA. I have several withdrawals due to a medical condition that required regular CAT, MRI, and PET scans and was unable to effectively attend classes at full capacity; however, I approached each semester at the time hoping that I would be able to. This is where I am getting confused, My W's are not showing up as punitive--7 of them-- but at UTA, they have "Q" and a "W" and I am unsure how to approach this in relation to calculating my LSAC GPA. the other problem is does anyone know if anyone had a similar situation to this? I'll post a link below from all the institutions so you guys can get an understanding of what I am talking about. This is really worrying me because I have worked extremely hard to raise gpa to where it is at. Thank you for your time and assistance. </p>

<p>UTA Grading Scale.
<a href="http://wweb.uta.edu/catalog/content/gen%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://wweb.uta.edu/catalog/content/gen&lt;/a> ... tions.aspx</p>

<p>FAU Grading Scale.
FAU</a> - Grading System</p>

<p>PBSU grading Scale.
<a href="http://palmbeachstate.compliance-assist%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://palmbeachstate.compliance-assist&lt;/a> ... 24e84f6678</p>

<p>I did not withdraw from any classes from PBSU only UTA and FAU. Essentially, I started out at FAU, then moved to texas--UTA--to be closer to MD Anderson and then back to Florida--first PBSU--and then transferred back to FAU. It's a mess and I honestly don't know what to make of it.</p>

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<p>Only one of the links you gave worked. You will need to submit to LSAC transcripts from all three colleges. Your calculated GPA will depend on the combination of all grades you have from all three colleges and not on the overall GPA from any one of the colleges. W grades (and the hours for the course) do not count toward LSAC calculated GPA unless the college considered them punitive in which case they are considered an F, but a “W” on a transcript rather than WF usually means they are not punitive. A “Q” means an excused withdrawal for non-academic reasons and thus will also not count toward LSAC GPA. When you have a lot of W’s like you do, even if they do not count toward GPA, it is advisable that you provide explanation in your essay for the law school because the transcript it will get will still show all the W’s even if they are not counted toward GPA.</p>