<p>if you are currently attending a JC.. and plan to transfer to a UC soon for your undergrad....will law schools calculate your JC gpa and UC gpa combined?</p>
<p>or do they only accept you based on your UNIVERSITY school's gpa, and disregard the JC school ??</p>
<p>what is the procedure for this?</p>
<p>sorry i'm a newbie as you can see...</p>
<p>Again, it's not really the law schools that calculate GPA's, rather it's the LSDAS, which serves as an application clearing-house for all accredited law schools, which calculates your GPA and then presents a report to the law schools. </p>
<p>LSDAS will combine all your grades (both JC and UC) into one consolidated GPA. However, LSDAS will also send copies of all your transcripts to the law schools. So if your UC grades are conspicuously lower than your JC grades, an admissions officer may take notice. On the other hand, if your application has made it to this stage of the admissions process, you can at least take solace in the fact that it made it up to the point where it's actually being read by a human being. Many if not most applications are thrown away without even being read because their numbers (the consolidated grades and/or the LSAT) are too low.</p>
<p>thanks sakky. so if my gpa for my JC is like around a 3.1, whereas my future UC gpa is higher, it will all be combined ?</p>
<p>and, in your opinion, is corporate law boring?</p>
<p>i wanna (if i do law school) be in the most fun and interesting typa law available.</p>
<p>your suggesstions would behoove me.</p>
<p>Yes, it would all be combined.</p>
<p>Although I must say that getting a higher GPA at UC than at a JC would be most unusual. I don't want to overgeneralize, but the fact is, JC classes tend to be far far easier than UC classes. </p>
<p>And yes, IMO, corporate law is very boring. The most interesting law is public-interest law, where you have the possibility of fighting for ideas you passionately believe in. Let's face it. Corporate law, while necessary for the economy, isn't exactly the most emotionally gripping work you'll ever do in your life. I don't think anybody wakes up with a burning passion for crafting some contract in order to save some corporation a chunk of change. Or you can ask yourself the 'deathbed' question. When you're dying on your deathbed and you're looking back at your life, what will you feel better about - spending your life to fight to implement one of your personal beliefs (whatever that may be), or spending your life fighting the legal battles of a corporation? I think you'd agree that most people would prefer the former.</p>
<p>The problem, of course, is that public-interest law tends to pay rather poorly.</p>
<p>"Although I must say that getting a higher GPA at UC than at a JC would be most unusual. I don't want to overgeneralize, but the fact is, JC classes tend to be far far easier than UC classes. "</p>
<p>CRAP! that's not good news, man! damn, i'm already workin real hard at my JC, and for this semester I got 2 A's, 1 B and 1 C (stats class, horrible teacher).</p>
<p>my major is law and society. and what sucks about the UC system is that it is on the quarter timeline...which totally sucks...my JC is on the semester system...</p>
<p>hey, how much time do you recommend one to study for the lsat? a year prior? </p>
<p>what about environmental law? i like that. i don't wanna do criminal, thats for sure. is environmental law well pay? public/civil law? any of these?</p>