<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I had a terrible fall semester as a freshman due to numerous extenuating circumstances that I do not wish to delve into. Anyway, I failed a class and had to do an emergency withdrawal for another. I am planning on re-taking both courses and will most likely get A's when I retake them. My school takes the new grade and uses that to calculate GPA but the original grades will still show up on my transcript along with the new grades. How will law schools, especially the top-tier one's view this?</p>
<p>Whoops wrong forum, ignore please lol!</p>
<p>There's a standard way law schools calculated GPA (LSAC/LSDAS), which will count both grades for retakes but won't count with withdrawals. Did you get a medical withdrawal? Often times, those don't show up on your transcript at all after you retake. Sorry about your rough semester!</p>
<p>I was diagnosed with ADD so I don't know if that would count as a medical withdrawal, but it did count as an extraordinary withdrawal which requires extenuating circumstances. I guess I'll have to find out from my school. Thanks for the reply!</p>