<p>I read from the other thread that LSDAS does not care about the difficulty of the classes, but what about schools that don't give out A+'s as an option?</p>
<p>How do they handle schools with a 4.0 scale when they rate on a 4.3 scale?</p>
<p>If your school gives A+'s and counts them as 4.0, LSDAS will recalculate them as 4.33. If your school just doesn't give them, then no adjustment would be made.</p>
<p>If your school does not give out A +'s, or they are very difficult to obtain, your LSDAS GPA will never be above 4.0. If your college calculates an A - as a 3.75 and you have ALL A -'s throughout college, your LSDAS will be 3.66- as LSDAS converts ALL grades to their scale. And an A - is equal to a 3.66.</p>
<p>law schools may weigh the difficulty of your classes and take that into consideration a bit- but it looks like some schools are mostly interested in the GPA and LSAT score.<br>
IMO- a 3.7 will not keep you out of any law school (except a handful--I'm not that obsessed to know which ones). But with that GPA range, your LSAT score Will be the deciding factor!!
A 4.0 and a 160 LSAT is not going to get you into a T-14.</p>
<p>marny1 is right. I know some people who applied with 4.0 LSAC GPA and early 160s and got rejected to every T-14 law school. On the flip side, I know people with 3.6s and 170s on their LSAT who got accepted to Columbia and NYU.</p>
<p>wow... that's not really fair if kids go to schools that only give out A's and get an A- for working really hard and other kids, equally intelligent, get 4.0s for working just as hard at a school that does grade inflation. I'm aiming for Harvard right now and it seems like i can only get in if:</p>
<ol>
<li>I work my ass off and never leave my dorm for 4 years
or</li>
<li>I attend a grade inflating school</li>
</ol>
<p>Oh well, complaining is not going to change the system.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, the LSAT is much more important than your GPA anyway.</p>