Hi, I’m currently a senior at UC Berkeley who will be applying to law school next year. I have a question about P/NP on transcripts. I have yet to find a definite answer via LSAC and my school. I took a class my first semester here and I received a NP. I am retaking it now and will definitely receive a P. I know that the LSAC counts a NP as an F, while a P doesn’t do anything to your GPA. What happens when you get a NP and a P in a course? I know if I took it for a letter grade, they’d count both. But what happens in this case? It doesn’t seem logical and very ethical to only count the NP but not even bother to see that I passed it. I’ve also heard that it could depend on the specific law school.
The rules are linked below. (Just bcos they disadvantage you, doesn’t make them unethical. The rules have been published for a long time.)
The short answer is that the NP = F. And the replacement P is ignored.
http://www.lsac.org/aboutlsac/policies/transcript-summarization
How does that make any sense though? It’s not logical… and it’s not just either.
@camillea123: It doesn’t really matter whether any of us think it’s a good way, it’s the way LSAC uses. You can always write to them and see if they’ll grant you an exception, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.