<p>Yes, all college grades regardless of when and where you took them (high school, study abroad, summers).</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that GPA is a huge factor for law schools and it is in a students best interest to get the highest GPA possible. Law Schools are slaves to ratings such as USNWR in which GPA is a major statistic.</p>
<p>On a related note, how about classes that are mandatory credit/non, without a letter grade at all. Am I right in thinking that this kind of class is not counted in the LSDAS GPA? Is an explanation necessary? Thanks!</p>
<p>my S started taking community college classes for enjoyment in 8th grade and continued through 12th grade. He's a first-year at Cal, and it's weird to think that those CC classes from age 13-17 will be counted by law schools. Mostly, he got A's but the foreign language classes were B's. I hope that doesn't hurt him too much later on.</p>
<p>What about remedial classes (Im bad at math and placed low) taken at the Community College level? No university for my transfer admissions counted these classes, so Id be a bit surprised if they counted on LSAC.</p>
<p>Bball87, having spent two years at a CC I'd like to say that there are some difficult classes that I took there... But on the whole they don't come close to being as hard as they classes at a real university.</p>
<p>Okay, never mind. I've found the answer to my previous question in the LSAC info book.</p>
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What about remedial classes (Im bad at math and placed low) taken at the Community College level? No university for my transfer admissions counted these classes, so Id be a bit surprised if they counted on LSAC.
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A college class is a college class as far as LSAC is concerned. Doesn't matter if your university counts them for credit.</p>
<p>if you took 1-unit seminars that were pass/no pass only (can't receive a letter grade), then how would it be calculated into the GPA?</p>
<p>Pass/fail classes are not counted if you got a pass. If you fail, however, that's counted as an F.</p>
<p>I was a Chemistry major @ SUNY Binghamton for four years in which my G.P.A suffered heavily (had financial difficulties and an illnesss that led to my father's death made me take a year off). I was the typical stupid college kid who thought college was all fun and never really invested much in classwork. My question is: do I have a shot at any Ivy's with my Philosophy major (overall g.p.a of 2.54) and a 174 on my LSATs or should I attempt retaking as I thought I could have done better? Any advice will be much appreciated, and please, be as brutally honest as possible.</p>
<p>A 174 is a great score, don't retake the LSAT.</p>
<p>Ollie, congrats on a wonderful score. May I ask what you did to prepare for the test?</p>
<p>Thanks for the compliment. Changed my major to philosophy in my senior year, took 4 philosophy courses, one with John Arthur, knew it wasn't as easy as I thought because I had a sub-three g.p.a. Studied from February last year till October. The secret to the test is true practice, when you can honestly assess your weaknesses and work on them - it's really that simple. The first time I took the practice test, I got 156 mostly in part because of my poor performance in the logic section. Took up Methods Of Reasoing with likable Prof. Dietrich @ my school, came out with a c+ but was glad because I got a better hang of it. Got an A in symbolic logic not cause the course was that good, but because there was an x-facor, my mentor, an adjunt lecturer at the African studies department who swore he was taught by one of the best minds in philosophy and volunteered and committed to tutoring me twice a week. My best advice for anyone is to get out there! Why rely on just your own skills? There are tons of grad students out there, sometimes even professors who volunteer their time to helping you out in their subjects. This is not phenomenon, and I'm sure this applies to all schools. I didn't need Kaplan, but I got a little bit of from mininova.org, where using the u (mu) torrent client -utorrent.org as their server, you can download some 30+ tests in one click. Plus Barrons and LSAT for Dummies. To be honest, I should have done better 'cause I thought I did, and brace yourself for this cliche, if I can, any average LSAT taker could do all of these things which are well within his reach, and easily improve 15+ points on their LSATs. Of course you can't major in music and expect to develop the skills you need to pass this test ( no offense to music majors). You can and should most of these things. Help yourself and the rest is easy.</p>
<p>idk...ppl say that with the SATs, but face it, some ppl no matter how hard they try/practice cannot hit a 1450</p>
<p>one example, my friend</p>
<p>tutors galore, preping and preing, took it 3-4 times, highest composite score 1300</p>
<p>i however went from a 1370 to a 1450, so i guess it can be done</p>
<p>so if they count the pass in a pass/fail, what gpa point do u get?</p>
<p>You don't get anything for a pass, but failing will count as an F.</p>
<p>They don't count a "pass." They just don't do it. It's not included in the calculation.</p>
<p>alright thanks - i didnt realize the question was answered above</p>
<p>also, can anyone post a link to lsac's official explanation of all this, ive searched several times and i cant find it</p>
<p>look at the first post in this forum for the link</p>
<p>i was wondering how adcoms look at CLEP/DANTE exams (not in terms of how they count it, because I know how they do). But do they frown up on ppl taking a lot of CLEP's (like 12-18 credits worth), not care about it or regard it very highly</p>