Having many transcripts

[Shannon13]

<p>When I apply for law school I will have about 10 transcripts. 1 will be from my graduating university, and will have roughly 90-100 units including all of my upper division work and my lower division prerequisites for my major.</p>

<p>The other 9 are from a bunch of community colleges I attended to fulfill my GE. Some of the schools I went to I accidentally registered for and then dropped the class after realized that I registered for a class at the wrong college (since community colleges are separated into districts with one registration system). And some others, I just took one class. And then some others, I just dropped or stopped going to class and got an F. So some of the transcripts have very little on them. Regardless, they have in total 55 units with a 3.0 GPA.</p>

<p>I'm not trying to hide my GPA or my classes, I just don't want my application to look ridiculous by sending in 10 transcripts when really, only 1 is important! I think on my main transcript it will note that I had 55 units from community college with a 3.0 GPA, and it will show my cumulative GPA. Is it okay just to send that one? Not only do I not want the additional transcripts to distract the admissions, but it will be very costly to pay for 10 transcripts to be sent to each of the schools I apply to :(.</p>

[sybbie719]

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Is it okay just to send that one? Not only do I not want the additional transcripts to distract the admissions, but it will be very costly to pay for 10 transcripts to be sent to each of the schools I apply to .

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<p>You are required to send every single transcript from every single school that you have attended. </p>

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After you register for the Credential Assembly Service (CAS), you must have a separate transcript sent to LSAC directly from each undergraduate and graduate institution you attended in the United States, its territories, or Canada</p>

<p>Transcripts to include:
•community colleges
•bachelor’s and graduate institutions
•law/medical/professional institutions
•institutions attended for summer or evening courses
•institutions attended even though a degree was never received
•institutions from which you took college-level courses while in high school even though they were for high school credit
•institutions that clearly sponsored your overseas study. Clear sponsorship means: ◦the courses received the sponsoring institution’s academic credit (not transfer credit);
◦the course codes, titles, credits earned, and grades appear on the sponsoring institution’s transcript. Typically, these grades and credits are included in the sponsoring institution’s cumulative GPA. The courses are often administered and taught by the sponsoring institution’s faculty at an overseas institution.</p>

<p>Transcripts must be sent from institutions even if:
•credit was transferred from an institution and it appears on another institution’s transcript
•the institution is closed
(These transcripts are usually maintained by the department of higher education or by another school in the state in which the school was located, so you will need to contact the state’s department of higher education. For international transcripts, contact the Ministry of Education in the country where the school was located.)
•“withdraw,” “incomplete,” etc., are the only grades listed
•you have just enrolled
(Request that the registrar’s office send a transcript of courses “in progress” or a statement of current enrollment. The document must bear the official registrar’s seal.)</p>

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<p>Yes, you will have to pay for 10 transcripts to be send to the LSDAS (if your school requires you to pay for them). To not send them would mean that the law school would rescind your admissions, dismiss you once you have been admitted. It will all come out in the back ground check for the bar. </p>

<p>To not send them would leave you with ~200k of debt, a worthless piece of paper and the inability to be admitted to the bar.</p>

[Shannon13]

<p>Oh, so I only have to send them after I am admitted? I don’t mind that, I just didn’t want to send 10 transcripts to 15+ schools.</p>

[Greybeard]

<p>You need to send them as part of the application process.</p>

[sybbie719]

<p>You will have the transcripts from your 10 different colleges sent to the LSAC (LSDAS). </p>

<p>The LSAC will forward your transcripts to the law schools along with your LSAT scores, recommendation letters, applications, etc. </p>

<p>You will not have to pay for 150 transcripts, just 10. However, you will probably have to pay 15 processing fees if you apply to 15 different schools (it used to be 12 per school I do not know how much it is now).</p>