Bad CC gpa, am I screwed?

Avisron
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:09:24 +0000

I talked to the Dean at my school because I am in the EXACT same situation, and she assured me (though I don’t know if she just wanted me to feel better or not,) that law schools would look at my grades and realize that those D’s from when I was 15 years old shouldn’t matter.

Apparently, the LSDAS breaks out your GPA by undergraduate institution and by year. My situation is that I have 36 credit hours at the community college with an overall 3.0 GPA in them, but only because of two D’s in two math classes. If they look at my actual UNDERGRADUATE institution, where I actually went to college, I’m going to have at least a 3.5 GPA, probably higher.

My overall LSDAS GPA will be low - around a 3.3 or 3.4 - but it’s significantly (I feel) higher where it matters.

Edit: Plus, I only want to go to a top 40.