Is Study Aborad counted in GPA

Graduate School Law School
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<p>If I go study abroad at Edinburgh, will it count in my GPA for law school admissions?</p>

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<p>Yes, on your LSAC gpa.</p>

3

<p>Maybe. </p>

<p>If your study abroad program is “clearly affiliated” with a US university, then yes the grades will count. </p>

<p>If it is not, and your study abroad is shorter than one year, they will not.</p>

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<p>so, if it is at edinburgh, but afflilated with Butler or Arcadia (study abroad companies) for one semester, it wont count?</p>

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<p>wishful- I think it will count. My d did study abroad through wells college. She had to send her UG transcript as well as the one from wells college to LSAC.</p>

<p>Good news for her - her study abroad 4.0 semester brought up her LSAC GPA by .04. The info from LSAC shows 2 GPA’s- one from her homeschool and a separate LSAC GPA. I don’t have it in front of me- so I don’t remember the correct terminology- but I do know she had 2 separate GPA’s listed on the LSAC form. And I believe the higher GPA will be considered by the law schools.
Word to the wise- don’t mess around too much during your study abroad semester- the grades do count. And sometimes it can even bring up your GPA.</p>

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<p>Post #3 is incorrect. Law schools will count semesters abroad, whether it is “clearly affiliated” with your school, or an independent association such as IES (or whatever the initials are).</p>

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<p>Taken from the LSAC website: </p>

<p>Foreign Transcripts</p>

<pre><code>* Transcripts must be sent if your degree was received from a foreign institution and you are applying to a JD CAS-requiring law school.

  • Do not have a transcript sent from a foreign institution if your undergraduate degree is from a US, US Territory, or Canadian school, AND:
    o the total amount of work you completed at all foreign institutions combined is equal to or less than the equivalent of one year of undergraduate study in the US, its territories, or Canada, OR
    o your work was completed through an overseas study program that was clearly sponsored by a US, US Territory, or Canadian school.
    </code></pre>

<p>Clear sponsorship means:</p>

<pre><code>* the courses received the sponsoring school’s academic credit (not transfer credit);

  • the course codes, titles, credits earned, and grades appear on the sponsoring school’s transcript. Typically, these grades and credits are included in the sponsoring school’s cumulative GPA. The courses are often administered and taught by the sponsoring school’s faculty at an overseas institution.
    </code></pre>
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<p>so that means they dont count</p>

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<p>I know what you quoted, but my S’s app was held up for almost two months because the schools counted his app as incomplete until his transcript from IES was received. IES kept saying his transcript wouldn’t count, and LSAC kept saying it was required. It was incredibly frustrating. One rule in business we have to deal with when I work with lawyers: when reality and the law collide, reality wins.</p>