<p>I'm hesitant/paranoid to post this for fear an admissions officer somewhere someday will see this after I turn my applications in, but, oh well.</p>
<p>I started taking community college classes at the ripe old age of 15. I had a 3.7 GPA and 47 credits when I transferred to a university at age 18--which I promptly tanked with C's as a Biology Major. I shouldn't have been a Bio Major. I changed to a psychology major last fall in an attempt to save my GPA in order to go to law school.</p>
<p>Things were looking up. Then, I was violently assaulted off campus in April. After spending time in the hospital, lots of x rays and having people drive me to class because I couldn't drive or write, all my grades slipped one letter grade. Watching my As become Bs and my Bs become Cs was terrible. In addition, I ended up with a W in one class, something I've never had at university.</p>
<p>I'm planning to take two summer classes from my university--one in person (the class I got the W in) and an online for my major. In addition, I was planning to take 2 online community college classes. They're both Psychology classes--so if necessary they could be plugged into my university transcript, but REALLY I just want to take them to help raise my LSDAS GPA. I thought this was a good idea, but now I'm reading around on the internet, and it seems some people say that's A BAD IDEA--that law schools will frown on it as a "last ditch effort". I thought an A was an A when they went around and calculated your LSDAS GPA?</p>
<p>I'm really frustrated. If nothing else, this spring has given me a closer look at criminal law proceedings, and has made me want to go into criminal law instead of IP or environmental like I had originally supposed.
I'm taking the LSAT in October. I graduate with my undergrad next May. So this summer's grades will be the last on the transcript that law schools will be looking at when I apply this winter.</p>