<p>Hello,</p>
<p>(I apologize in advance if a similar question was asked in the past.I was unable to find it)</p>
<p>Please, let me explain my situation, before I ask the question.</p>
<pre><code>I transferred into my current university (UCSD) from a community college where I had a 3.65 GPA (I got a C in my Biology class, where the professor decided to teach us genetics and nothing but genetics). At the moment, my UCSD GPA is 3.46 (switching from a semester system to a quarter system hurt my grades during my first quarter), however I am fairly confident that I will raise it to 3.6 at the end of this quarter (I am a Junior at the moment), and in the fall quarter of my senior years I expect to raise it 3.72. I finished almost all of my upper division requirements and from here on I can take any classes, including basket weaving (they don't actually offer the course for credit, but you get the point)
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<p>Here is my question. I will be unable to do well on LSAT this June, because I will have my finals in the first days of June, and frankly, I think that raising my GPA is the first priority at the moment. Thus, does it really matter if I take my LSAT in October instead of June? Other than the fact that I could retake it if, for some reason, I did very badly on my first try? I was planning to spend most of my summer preparing for LSAT as if it were my full-time job.</p>
<p>My second question. Since I will be applying to law schools in my Senior year before I graduate, the transcript that they will get will not include all of the grades that I will get. Correct? Thus, instead of a 3.8+ that I expect at graduation, my transcript will only show the 3.7 that I expect after the Fall quarter. Does this make a big difference? Would it be a better idea to apply to law schools AFTER graduation, in order to raise my chances of getting into a good law school, even if by a small margin? </p>
<p>Thank you very much for your time</p>