<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I was talking to a pre-law adviser on campus, and he suggested that the Law School admissions process only looks at the last few years. He stated that a lot of law-schools recalculate your GPA, ignoring plusses and minuses, and only looking at the last years of your college.</p>
<p>I started college a number of years ago, and did poorly. Came back in '05, and my GPA has been about a 3.85 since them. Will Law Schools look at the really old coursework, or just the grades for the last 3-4 years?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Law schools won’t “recalculate” your GPA, and they have to report the entire thing to LSAC once you matriculate. They may or may not choose to count your old coursework heavily against you. I suggest that as a special circumstance applicant, you apply to a very wide variety of schools.</p>
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<p>Definitely not true for law school, grad school, undergrad etc as each require transcripts from every school you have attended not matter when you attended. YOur law school transcript will report all of your grades and they will be calculated in your overall LSDAS gpa.</p>
<p>Yes, it is true that some time and distance can can put some less than stellar grades in a different light but it looked at in context of what you have done.</p>
<p>For example if you had a 2.5 gpa at 18, left school returned at 26. Then you got a 4.0 each term since returning, the 2.5 won’t look as bad but it will still be calculated in your LSDAS gpa. You would write an addendum about the person you were then, the person you are now and what you have learned from the experience.</p>