<p>I go to uc berkeley, and have a GPA here - 3.77 - and i just realized that the LSDAS gets all of your grades from other colleges and makes an overall GPA. How do they factor in quarter v. semester units, etc? Is there a website where I can plug in grades/units, or is there a conversion factor for things from JC's?</p>
<p>I also have credits from Stanford - which is on quarter system - how do i factor all this in?</p>
<p>Luckily all these grades are good, so no matter what, its only an upside!!!</p>
<p>Unless I'm mistaken, LSDAS calculates your GPA using two numbers: the grade you received in a class and the credit hours. Presumably, Stanford's courses will have fewer credit hours attached to them, so the grades will still count, but will count for less (much in the same way that a graded lab course doesn't get full weight).</p>
<p>LSAC calculates a GPA for each year and a cumulative GPA for each undergraduate institution that issued a transcript for you.</p>
<p>A cumulative GPA that includes all undergraduate work is also calculated and reported.</p>
<p>A cumulative GPA for a school within an institution cannot be calculated.</p>
<p>In calculating a GPA, LSAC uses the grades and credits for every course that can be converted to the 4.0 scale, although the
institution issuing the transcript may exclude some of the courses from its own calculations. Courses excluded from the LSDAS summary are not included in the GPA calculation.</p>
<p>however, i was wondering about the conversion for the weighting - for example, a stanford course is an A and is listed as 3 units. however, stanford is on the quarter system - and therefore units are worth differnet amounts.
at berkeley, my GPA is calculated, for example, with a B in math that is worth 3 units - ie 3.00 (gpa pts) x 3 (units) = 9. add in the totals from other classes, divide by units, and you have your gpa.
how do i convert from quarter units to semester units so i can accuaratley predict what my LSDAS GPA will be in advance?</p>
<p>and, btw, thanks for the advice re the A-'s. I always did think it was wierd berkeley saw them as 3.7s - now i have to recalculate (Althogugh it shouldnt make that big a difference).....</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>edit: actually, got it - multiply quarter units by .67, time for me to do some calculating.....</p>
<p>Sybbie, if a student got an A+ at the undergraduate institution, would LSDAS count it as 4.0 or as 4.33? My son's college counts both A and A+ grades as 4.0, so does this mean that his LSDAS gpa would actually be higher? Thanks?</p>
<p>Thanks all! I am encouraged to hear that those A+ grades are good for something! It seemes unfair that Pitt assigns lower points for an A-, but does not give extra points for an A+.</p>
<p>Not to beat a dead horse, but that is the point of the LSDAS grading scheme: to standarize grades across schools. If one school has an A- as a 3.7 and another has it as a 3.6, LSDAS will convert both to a 3.667 so as to have a good method of comparing the students.</p>
<p>I was a community college student, went to another 4-year school, and then transferred to Stanford. So I have transcripts from, like (as they say in California), 6 schools total. I also have some study abroad credits from a language school and from a well-known school in England.</p>
<p>So, I'm wondering how they will calculate all of this. Will they ask me to get transcripts from all community colleges (I just took one course at some of them)? Will they accept the study abroad credits? </p>
<p>Not all of my credits (from community college or abroad) are on my "main" transcript at Stanford, because I had more than the maximum units that Stanford would accept at the time of transfer, having had so many community college classes prior to attending. Will they count anyway?</p>
<p>And also, if I take any classes post-graduation at a community college or similar, for interest or for career benefit, will those be included?</p>
<p>Okay, I guess I should read before I write.</p>
<p>(copied from LSDAS documents)</p>
<p>Requesting Transcripts (transcripts are required for the following):</p>
<ul>
<li>law/medical/professional schools</li>
<li>schools attended for summer or evening courses</li>
<li>schools attended even though a degree was never received</li>
<li>schools from which you took college-level courses while in high school even though they were for high school credit</li>
<li>schools that sponsored your exchange or cooperative program abroad</li>
</ul>
<p>Transcripts must be sent from schools even if:</p>
<ul>
<li>credit was transferred from a school and it appears on another schools transcript</li>
<li>the school is closed; (These transcripts are usually maintained by the department of higher education or by another school in the state in which the school was located, so you will need to contact the states department of higher education.)</li>
<li>withdraw, incomplete, etc., are the only grades listed;</li>
<li>you have just enrolled. (Request that the registrars office send a transcript of courses in progress or a statement of current enrollment. The document must bear the official registrars seal.)</li>
</ul>
<p>So, I guess the answer to my questions is yes. :)</p>
<p>I'm wondering now why it isn't a more common strategy to take a bunch of easy community college courses post-graduation to boost that GPA. Hmmm....</p>
<p>No community college courses taken post-graduation are factored into your GPA. Only courses taken before you receive your first Bachelor's degree count toward your LSDAS gpa.</p>
<p>But yea, all the community college courses taken BEFORE you received your first degree will count.</p>