<p>How would law schools know that you took college courses outside of your own alma mater (before you graduated)? If you did bad in one of those college courses, why not just not mention it? I don't see how they could find out.</p>
<p>Student clearinghouses based on SSN; future bar investigations…</p>
<p>…and that small matter of you promising that it’s a complete application.</p>
<p>I agree with Mike, it is better to disclose everything (the good, the bad and the ugly) than to spend 3 years and a lot of money in law school only to find out that you will not be admitted to the bar because you fail the C & F becaue of some omissions that you thought they would never find out about.</p>
<p>Law schools and LSDAS will require that you submit all transcripts for all coursework at the college level (or above) that you have ever taken. </p>
<p>You will sign an affidavit on your law school application stating that your application is true and complete. </p>
<p>LSDAS requires that you send all of your transcripts to LSDAS (and may require you to make a statement somewhere in the service registration that you have provided true and complete information).</p>
<p>When you apply to the bar after graduation from law school, in most, if not all, states you will be required to include a certified copy of your law school application (directly from your law school), along with your law school transcript. </p>
<p>Many states do conduct background checks in connection with your character and fitness application. Many, if not most, employers do the same.</p>
<p>If it is ever determined that you have falsified any information or lied, your degree can be revoked, you may be disbarred, any job offer would likely rescinded and any job would likely be terminated. </p>
<p>Is it really worth the significant risk?</p>
<p>What you mean by non-degree? </p>
<p>You meaning some tech course, or a college course that somehow never got counted towards your degree?</p>
<p>If the latter, I suggest report all college level classes.</p>
<p>What if you decide to take university extension classes after you graduate from undergrad (extension classes are the same and regular classes students take in undergrad), or take classes at a local community college after you have received your bachelor’s. If you transferred to a university after JC then yeah, those get calculated in the lsdas gpa, but if you go back to JC classes “for fun” after you graduate undergrad those do not get counted as part of your gpa, so why would they want those courses reported if you took them -after- you got your bachelor’s?</p>
<p>since law schools only care about your undergrad grades that is what they use to calculate a gpa…so why would they care about classes you took subsequently to the bachelor’s degree…correct me if i’m wrong but such classes after the degree is granted play no role in influencing “a gpa” - as, say, a postbac program for med students who wish to enhance their academics would indeed have an influence for Med school admissions/gpa.</p>
<p>You must submit transcripts to theh LSAC for LSDAS for all college courses taken at every college you have attended. It does not matter if you took then in high school or you took them after you graduated, you must still submit transcripts.</p>
<p>As far as “analyzing a gpa” goes, it stops after all the necessary coursework leading up to complete the bachelor’s is done, right?</p>
<p>Hmmm . . . . son took a job out of state afer drop/add on a summer course at a local college. So he has a W in the class. Is this going to hurt him in law school admissions? He goes to college at a different institution out-of-state and has a very good gpa there.</p>
<p>A little. Send it in, but otherwise don’t worry too much about it.</p>