Undergrad Grade Deflation

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I'm a rising senior going to a college that is known (well) for undergrad grade deflation. My GPA is sitting at about 3.4 right now, majoring in international relations, though if you take out the one physics class I should never have taken in the first place that puts it well into 3.5 range. I've done a bunch of prep for the October LSATs, and I've scored 174-176 on all 6 of my practice LSATs. Testing has always been my strong point. </p>

<p>First, will law schools consider the fact that my school practices deflation? </p>

<p>Second, my grades have consistently gone up since I entered college. How big a factor will that be for admissions officers. </p>

<p>And third, if I do score around a 175, how much will that make up for my relatively low GPA?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I have heard that they don’t actually look over it too much but they combine your LSAT with your GPA to give you a score how ever some colleges count GPA as more and some count LSAT as more.</p>

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<p>Many students strongly believe that their college is grade-deflated, but statistics generally don’t bear it out (see gradeinflation.com). Regardless, IR is not considered as rigorous a major such as engineering, so more B’s than A’s in social science-humanities ain’t gonna look good to top grad schools. (And yes, physics counts in the gpa calc.)</p>

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<p>A conservative guess would be that there are 10 previous threads on this topic. You might want to search.</p>