<p>I’m thinking about heading into law schools in Canada and the US and I know undergrad GPAs can be calculated in multiple ways so I just want to know what method do law schools use when considering your GPA for admissions?</p>
<p>I see this in either 3 ways:</p>
<li> They use the GPA given from your undergrad institution</li>
<li> They convert according to some system designed by the LSAC</li>
<li> Each law school has their own way of calculating admission GPAs</li>
</ol>
<p>GPA calculations are uniform and are always performed according to the LSAC formula. The standard GPA system applies (i.e. an A is a 4.0, an A- is a 3.66, a B+ is a 3.33, etc.). The only real difference between the LSAC system and many undergrads is that LSAC will count an A+ as a 4.33. Some schools will award A+'s and have them count as a 4.0 in GPA calculations, so an applicant’s official LSAC GPA might differ from his official school GPA.</p>
<p>LSAC itself calculates the GPA, which will then appear on your score report along with your LSAT score (and various other data).</p>