Please help..gpa questions!

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'll try to make this as concise as possible, but I'm pretty confused as it is. I graduated high school and am starting at a 4 year college soon. I aspire to be lawyer, if it wasn't already obvious from the forum I'm posting in haha, and of course need to attend law school. During the summer after my freshman year in high school (Summer 2008), I took two classes at my local community college. I was 14 at the time so I felt super intimidated at the time due to the older students around me and ended up ditching my classes, and instead of withdrawing, ended up getting two F's on my transcript. And so the questions begin. Both these classes were 6 week courses that were 3 units each, and were each 2 hours and 5 minutes in legnth every Monday-Thursday. The biggest question I have is how much these grades will affect my appearance to top level law schools? Say hypothetically I get a 3.8 from my college with a 170 LSAT (this is just an example), how much will these grades pull my gpa down and how badly will this look to law schools such as the top 14? I know there's an addendum on the application so I'm wondering how much law schools actually focus on that? Also, I've heard people saying you don't have to submit CC transcripts if you don't transfer them to your 4 year undergrad, which I'm not, but I've also heard that can get you disbarred? Sorry for the bombardment of questions, but I'd really appreciate some help! I've searched endlessly about these things but haven't found the exact answers to my situation.</p>

<p>P.S. I'm starting my freshman year fall quarter at college with 18 units if that information helps at all, and thanks for reading this long post! I'm freaking out!</p>

<p>Oh yeah, also, if I repeat the courses, which I will do, the CC reports both the original and repeated course and so the lsac gpa would reflect both.</p>

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<p>The transcripts must still be submitted to the LSDAS even if the courses were taken in high school and you were not able to transfer the credits.</p>

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<p>You have two different questions. One, you must provide a transcript to LSAC of all college and community college courses you took even if taken in high school and those will be provided to law schools. Two, the law school then chooses what to actually use for admission and most if not all will ignore something you took in Freshman year of high school unless it was used as college credit when you started college.</p>

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<p>Should you repeat the course, the old and the new grade may both become fair game with the old course being calculated into your LSDAS GPA (because you are using it for college credit).</p>

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<p>If you explain the situation and write your application well you might be able to recover. Make sure you try to excel in other areas and do very well on the LSAT.</p>