...how Do Law School Calculate Your Gpa?

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<p>Hey guys just wondering.... How do Law School's calculate your gpa... do they only count your major courses? the last 2 years right just the upper division classes? or was I misinformed...</p>

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<p>Technically, speaking, law schools don't calculate anything. GPA's are calculated by the LSDAS, which is basically a clearing-house that standardizes all your grades and provides the law schools with a grade report. Law schools will also receive a copy of all your raw transcripts that LSDAS used to calculate that report, but it is the report itself that the law schools will spend the most time examining. </p>

<p>So the real question is with what grades does LSDAS calculate your report. And the answer to that is everything. Absolutely everything. Everything you took in college. Everything. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.lsac.org/lsac.asp?url=lsac/about-the-lsdas.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lsac.org/lsac.asp?url=lsac/about-the-lsdas.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>sakky, is that everything?</p>

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<p>It is everything.</p>

<p>I was not aware that LSDAS even sent the transcripts onwards to law schools - I thought that they sent their own version in, but I'm almost certain that the classes you take are not included among those. If you log into LSDAS, you can see what they send the schools - and your transcript (as in, what class you took when and what grade you got) just aren't a part of it.</p>

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<p>Ariesathena, consider this quote, straight from the horse's mouth</p>

<p>"What is included in the LSDAS report to law schools?</p>

<p>Your report consists of data such as your undergraduate academic summary, your LSAT score(s), copies of your transcript(s), writing sample, and letter(s) of recommendation (if you use LSAC's letter of recommendation service)."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.lsac.org/LSAC.asp?url=/lsac/faqs-and-support-lsdas.asp#3%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lsac.org/LSAC.asp?url=/lsac/faqs-and-support-lsdas.asp#3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>