<p>Hello, so I don't know if this has been covered already, but I have recently transferred this spring to a new University (I am a second semester sophomore.) I am wondering how graduate schools (particularly Law Schools) factor in your GPA from your first school with your gpa from the school you graduate from as a transfer. Do they average them, or even look at your first GPA at all? Also, my new University is very lax on requirements and grades (no pluses or minuses, allows students to take unlimited classes pass/fail...the school may be fairly obvious to some of you) does anybody know how graduate and law schools factor in a "satisfactory" grade, and if they look at your gpa any differently knowing pluses or minuses cannot be factored in? Any response to either parts, or all of my questions will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>ps. Please don't tell me to go post this in the transfer section, as I already have and nobody has responded, and it seems as if some of you law people are quick and informative in your responses. Thank you for your time.</p>
<p>All law schools consider the same GPA as calculated by LSAC. All your college grades (except pass/fail) earned before your first bachelor's degree will count equally with the following scale: A+ = 4.33, A = 4.00, A- = 3.67, etc, so it makes no difference that you transferred as far as the GPA calculation goes. It doesn't matter if one school doesn't give A+ or doesn't give +/- or allows unlimited pass/fail.</p>
<p>I transferred from one college to another back in the 70's before applying to law school. The LSDAS (Law School Data Assembly Service) computed my GPA separately for both schools I had attended, and displayed the average LSAT score of applicants from each school, and the percentile ranking of my GPA among recent applicants for law school from each institution.</p>
<p>They will convert whatever they see on your transcript. If your school only gives A, B, C, then your A = 4.00. If your school gives A+, A, A-, then A+ = 4.33 and A = 4.00 and A- = 3.67. If your school gives A and A-, then A = 4.00 and A- = 3.67.</p>
<p>i have a similar question to the op's--in two parts:</p>
<p>1)i am attending uva now. i had a 4.0 over 70 credits at a community college beforehand. will both my uva gpa and my cc gpa be taken into account? will they be separated? combined?</p>
<p>2) i attended NYU as an undergrad 19 years ago for a single semester. i did miserably (a c+ a d and an incomplete; boy was that another life!) will that be taken into account as far as gpa is concerned?</p>
<p>"All your college grades (except pass/fail) earned before your first bachelor's degree will count equally with the following scale: A+ = 4.33, A = 4.00, A- = 3.67, etc, so it makes no difference that you transferred as far as the GPA calculation goes."</p>
<p>I think that everything (no matter how old) is taken into account (though it may seem silly), but maybe I'm wrong about this. </p>
<p>If everything is in fact combined, you could always highlight (in an addendum) how you actually did in your more recent studies, just to empahsize what your current performance really is.</p>