HELP! Graduate school dilemma

Graduate School Law School
1

<p>So I started off as a music major at a private school freshman year, held a solid 3.6-3.7 GPA</p>

<p>Transferred to a bigger school, switched my major to pre-music-therapy (which is a very demanding major)</p>

<p>I'm in my senior year now, I have a 2.7. I'm going into my last semester with two difficult graduate courses, my capstone requirement (A highly difficult class that has 4 hours of field work per week) and two undergrad courses.</p>

<p>I've had terrible advising-found out I didn't even need to take two courses that I did terrible in (it wasn't required, not even as an elective) I spoke with an advisor from the school said there's nothing he can do about removing the two courses I don't need for anything.</p>

<p>I have a few C or C-'s that I could retake for a better grade (but he mentioned diminishing returns) </p>

<p>This fall I made dean's list with a 3.4</p>

<p>So my questions are:</p>

<p>Since I didn't need those courses and was advised to take them by my assigned advisors, do I have a case to remove those grades/classes from my progress report? I was told by one of the school's advisors that I COULD talk to a dean but he advised that I didn't.</p>

<p>I have an interest in law-school, so I want to take time to score high on the LSAT-Say I have about a 2.8 as a Pre-therapy undergrad w/ two grad courses and a full course load with two semesters of 3.3+ semester cumulative, would this be possible?</p>

<p>Do I take some classes over again over the summer to try and raise it even after I do really well this semester?</p>

<p>Is the fact that I've worked while going to school full time factor in the application process?</p>

<p>Does my transfer GPA count towards ANYTHING?</p>

<p>If I take a year off and work/intern in the related field of what I want to go to grad school for-will this matter?</p>

<p>Please, if anyone can answer any of these.. I'd be grateful.</p>

2

<p>bump.</p>

<p>Can anyone help with any advice?</p>

3

<p>Here’s a partial answer.</p>

<p>I don’t know what a “progress report” is, but law schools will count all of your grades. If you take the classes over, as long as the original grade is listed on your transcript, it will be counted in your LSDAS gpa, even if your college doesn’t count it. </p>

<p>Your law school report will factor in your grades from the previous institution. </p>

<p>If you get a BA or BS this spring, and then take courses this summer, those courses won’t count in your LSDAS gpa. If you won’t graduate until after you take them and they count as undergraduate courses, they will count.</p>

<p>When it doubt about this sort of thing, go to official sources. See, e.g., [LSAC</a> - Policies: Policies Related to Transcript Summarization](<a href=“http://www.lsac.org/policies/transcript-summarization.asp]LSAC”>http://www.lsac.org/policies/transcript-summarization.asp)</p>