<p>Grades Excluded from Conversion</p>
<p> Withdraw,Withdraw/Pass</p>
<p>Sybbie,</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. That's very, very useful. :)</p>
<p>I wonder how they would treat Stanford's co-terminal masters program, where work for the bachelors and the masters is completed at the same time, and the degrees can be conferred at the same time. Does anyone know the answer to that (super-specialized) question?</p>
<p>Doesn't the whole 4.33/4.0 put students at a disadvantage if their schools didn't award 4.33? I've had several "A+" in my life and time, but on my transcript they show up as 4.0 and as an "A". In a perfect world schools would give those extra points from English comp to my poor little Economics grade...</p>
<p>your home school must accept any transfer credit for that credit to be counted in the LSDAS gpa, right? i thought i read that but couldnt find it again.</p>
<p>Doesn't it stike you as odd that folks who parse every minute detail of a school while they're in the search NEVER mention what grading scale is used? These aren't difficult things to determine before one applies to undergrad. I think it matters not for the schools on applcation to law can make their determination on whatever floats the boat. They can choose to bump a candidate up for those A+ or they can choose to focus on LSAT more.</p>
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your home school must accept any transfer credit for that credit to be counted in the LSDAS gpa, right? i thought i read that but couldnt find it again.
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I'm almost certain that it gets thrown in, regardless of whether or not your school accepts it as credit. Considering that they count if they are for high school credit, why would they not count if your school doesn't accept it?</p>
<p>Basic, basic rule: Everything up until your first degree counts. </p>
<p>C'estLaVie: if your professors gave you an A+ that goes as an A onto your transcript, you should request to have that changed. Simply go to the registrar's office, explain that it does count for LSDAS, and ask that the change be made, even though your school doesn't give you the credit. Also, talk to your pre-law advisor, who would probably want to ensure that other students get the credit for the A+ grades, too.</p>
<p>People, people... the whole point of LSDAS recalculating your GPA is to level the playing field across schools. When in doubt, send in the transcript.</p>
<p>Please don't forget that while the law schools certainly receive the LSDAS GPA, the law schools also receive copies of each of your transcripts, so they know from which schools in in which courses you earned each grade. Therefore, to the extent that your LSDAS GPA is influenced upwards by As in summer courses taken at your local community college rather than at your more challenging university program, it will be obvious to the law school admissions staff. They may choose to recalculate your GPA based only upon courses taken as a matriculated student (or on some other basis). My understanding is that this is often what is done in making admissions determinations.</p>
<p>LSDAS uses a date to qualify what grades are computed. Thus for those questioning dual degree programs, submatriculation programs and the like........all grades prior to receipt of undergrad degree. As to what any Law School chooses or may do with information reported to them: it is their program and they can choose to apply whatever factors serve them best.</p>
<p>Sally,</p>
<p>Very true. Law schools can see where you got your grades. However, I would be surprised if the response were anything but a mixed bag (the different reactions of law admissions people probably accounts for a lot of the variation in schools). I'm sure that some schools want to see that you got your As in a rigourous environment; I'm equally sure that other schools don't care if you took Introduction to Basket Weaving for your As. The flip side of this is readily apparent: many law schools don't care if you suffered through engineering and got lousy grades -they just want to see the As.</p>
<p>And many law admissions offices don't have enough personnel to recalculate your GPA. With thousands of applicants, recalculating GPA's, or combing through every transcript to determine what your A's were in, isn't feasible for a lot of law schools. That's not to say the process is all numbers-driven, because it isn't, but I don't think many of them have the time for going into such detail with every application.</p>
<p>If you want to highlight your difficult courses, etc., you can do that in your personal statement. Don't belabor the point, but a mention would most likely not offend anyone.</p>
<p>"schools from which you took college-level courses while in high school even though they were for high school credit"</p>
<p>what if you got a grade, but didn't receive any credit for it?</p>
<p>QUESTION REGARDING LSDAS GPA: IS YOUR LSDAS GPA EXPLICITLY LISTED FOR YOU ON THE LSAC WESBITE OR DO YOU JUST HAVE TO CALCULATE IT YOURSELF?</p>
<p>i haven’t signed up for the lsdas yet and i’m wondering if your recalculated lsdas gpa is shown to you on the website or do you have to rely on your own mock recalculation. i’m calculating my gpa will get a nice boost (3.66 to 3.75) mostly on the strength of A+'s and a few courses taken at a community college during summer/high school so i want to know if it’s ever explicitly confirmed.</p>
<p>You sign up for a lsdas account
You have your official transcripts submitted to LSDAS
they calculate your gpa
you go to the transcript tab then you will see your lsdas transcript along with the information about your school.</p>
<p>What if your CC didn’t give -'s and +'s?</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“http://lmgtfy.com/?q=calculating+LSDAS+gpa]Let”>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=calculating+LSDAS+gpa)</p>
<p>wow how did this thread get bumped? i got an email saying someone had responded to a thread that I posted in…i thought that was weird, since I haven’t posted here in years. Turns out my post was from July 2006, haha. that was when I just finished sophomore year of college and was only beginning to think about law school. i’m now a 2L at a T6…guess it’s been a while.</p>