<p>I transferred from Carnegie Mellon after my freshman year to a school with more prestige and less grade inflation. I had a 3.8 at CMU but now I have 3.41 at this new school. I understand that law schools prefer a gpa on the rise, but how exactly will lsac or law schools compute my overall undergraduate gpa? Further, I took college courses at a respectable state school while attending high school receiving 3 As. Will this state school gpa also be reflected on my lsac "number? I would greatly appreciate it if somebody could give me some clear answers...</p>
<p>LSAC treats all college grades as if you got them from the same place. So all your grades will count on the same scale: A+ = 4.33, A = 4.00, A- = 3.67, etc.</p>
<p>This is the sort of question you ought to go to <a href="http://www.lsac.org%5B/url%5D">www.lsac.org</a>. for--you'll find the official answer there.</p>
<p>Some advice: if you believe that the decreasing GPA will hurt your chances at law schools, send along an addendum which briefly explains that you changed schools (which they will know) and that there is no grade inflation at the new one. I think it would be hard to go wrong with spelling things out.</p>