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Hello everyone,

I have couple of questions.

  1. In 1985 I attended a Junior College in Florida as a foreign student, my English wasn't great and my GPA was obviously low. After finishing the AS degree I went back to Europe.

I put in that school in my LSAC account and had transcripts transferred. Will they calculate that one as well?

  1. I am at SNHU and finishing up my undergrad with a 4.0 GPA, I even made the president's list and was invited to join many honor societies. My English is like a native now, I have been in the states since end of 2006, was married to an American that is how I came to the US once again.

I have been really studying hard, even when I went through Leukemia scare I never let my school work suffer, and aced every class, even statistics.

I have taken the LSAT last Saturday and have absolutely no clue as to how I did, but probably not so good because I didn’t study too much, if necessary will take it again in June.

Having read new information, I found out that LSAC will formulate their own GPA for me, I find it somewhat unfair, if they have to take into account my JC GPA when I was an international student. Because currently I am a US citizen and speak no differently than any other American and my current GPA in my Forensic Psychology with a Minor in Justice Studies shows that it wasn’t the capability but rather the language that prevented me from achieving my full potential.

Question: how do I go about having law schools look at this matter from that perspective? how can I have law schools look at my academic achievement now? and not judge me on a GPA of 30 years ago.

Question: is there a way I can delete my JC transcript and info from LSAC?

Thank you very much.

Meral D.

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  1. Yes. Every undergrad credit prior to your first Bachelor's is counted.
  2. You can't make law schools look at this matter from the perspective you want. You can write an addendum, but law schools almost certainly won't care. Law school admissions are driven primarily by GPA/LSAT. You will simply have to see how LSAC calculates your GPA. If you didn't study for the LSAT, you will almost certainly have to retake it. You should come back here after you get a score.
  3. Deleting your JC transcript and info from LSAC is called "fraud." They aren't kidding about wanting every transcript.
  4. Why do you want to be a lawyer?
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you won’t receive your scores for 3 weeks, and you have spring coursework to complete. Forget the June test. Finish your coursework and retake in October. Since your GPA is dragged down by your juco classes, you can somewhat mitigate by acing the LSAT. And that will require several months of focused study.

Good luck.

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I don’t want to browbeat you, but I need to say this: if you are the type to take tests unprepared (and not because you’re so smart that you can get an incredible score with little effort), then please reconsider going to law school. Law school demands daily preparation and your grades are based on one test, no retakes, no do-overs.