<p>If you are planning on entering law school, the application process to law school will take into account all of your grades. This means that if you took a class that wasn't transferable, it's still taken into account. The same is true for repeating a class. Also, courses taken in high school at a JC will be taken into account.
In other words, I'm posting this in case anyone has had a bad grade and was wondering how to handle it when it comes time to apply to law school. Your only hope is to take more classes to try and boost your overall GPA because it will be seen by adcomms in law school.
Keep this in mind also when you take courses "just for fun" that you don't think will ever effect you. Even these courses will be taken into account when it comes time to apply to law school.
Much of this may be useless information for you, but if it helps even one person it was worth the post.</p>
<p>yeah i knew this, but it's good information nonetheless. many people don't realize this though. good post.</p>
<p>Good post. thanks, I didn't realize.</p>
<p>How about remedial math or English classes that are not university level?</p>
<p>You do have to submit your transcripts from high school and all universities you went to, however when considering your GPA they will only count those classes that were university level.</p>
<p>Also, this applies to any post-undergrad school. Business/med/law or any school's you're applying to get a Master or Doctorate from. They all look at all four years of undergrad work, wherever you completed the courses at. I doubt high school duel-enrollment courses will be taken into much consideration, but once you leave high school, everything counts.</p>
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You do have to submit your transcripts from high school and all universities you went to, however when considering your GPA they will only count those classes that were university level.
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<p>You don't need to send your high school transcript.</p>
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I doubt high school duel-enrollment courses will be taken into much consideration, but once you leave high school, everything counts.
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<p>They are calculated, if those duel-enrollment courses stand for courses taken at a community college for HS credit.</p>
<p>Right, but again, I doubt they will pay much attention to them. Unless you got a C/D, they'll probably just brush it off. One or two classes 4 years ago during high school won't matter as much as the classes required for an undergrad degree</p>
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Right, but again, I doubt they will pay much attention to them. Unless you got a C/D, they'll probably just brush it off. One or two classes 4 years ago during high school won't matter as much as the classes required for an undergrad degree
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<p>Actually, you'd be surprised.</p>
<p>Law schools are much more attuned to rankings than undergraduate institutions, and the average GPA of admitted students factors significantly in those rankings. Thus, if one has a C/D from a college level course taken in high school, it may be the case that it should not be taken seriously, but it significantly lowers one's GPA, and law schools might not want to take the student with the lower GPA simply because they do not want to lower their rankings.</p>
<p>Because law schools are so focused on GPA, it is no surprise that students applying from grade deflated institutions get shafted. I'm sure law schools would love to give a little boost to, say, MIT, Chicago, and Reed applicants–and they do give a slight one–but there is no question they aren't willing to go too far in helping the applicant, since they need to keep their own ranking in mind.</p>
<p>It's "dual" enrollment.</p>
<p>nspeds - totally agree =) What I meant was that if you have an A/B, they pay more attention to your undegrad work when deciding on your admission. If you have a C/D, I doubt they'll look past that.
My point is that if you got four A/Bs in high school duel enrollment then got a 3.0 average in a humanities degree, they arn't going to say "oh well they did well during high school!". Now if you get all Bs, and then get a 3.5+ in college, they'll probably look over the Bs in deciding admission, even though its part of your college GPA, simply because you did so well in your undergrad years that will be similar to your post grad degree days.</p>
<p>Also, this is why there are so few patent lawyers. Many patent lawyers have engineering undergrad work (yes, not all, but a good chunk), and its hard to get a law school GPA in engineering.</p>