<p>Say I was to spend my summer at a local community college and amass 30 or so units of worthless credit, but all with A+'s. Would this work then be included in my law school GPA, thus giving me above a 4.0?</p>
<p>Assuming you are able to get A+ in those 30 (quarter?) units, yes. However, I really doubt you would be able to pull it off. First, that is an insane load of credits regardless of where you take them. Second, it seems to me that you are underestimating comm. colleges --remember that comm. colleges are state schools and do not have a need to grade inflate. It seems to me that you are oversimplifying things.</p>
<p>Your choice…but you may be on your way to destroying your GPA and/or amassing some Ws on your transcript.</p>
<p>A normal load (15 credits) would be feasible if all you want is to improve your GPA, assuming the CC (and the Profs you take) has easy grading standards.</p>
<p>What were you thinking of taking? 30 credits of PE? You must be in great shape ;)</p>
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<p>Most reputable law schools distinguish between the difficulty of attaining A+s at a community college and A+s attained at a top tier institution; they typically favor students with a preponderance of the latter.</p>
<p>Actually, I know a person who decided they would cut costs by attending a community college for the first two years (they made a 4.0 during that time) and then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin to finish off. This individual ended up being acccepted to NYU Law. </p>
<p>I think that if you have your goals at a t14 insitution (w/ perhaps the exception of HYS) and you know you’ll be able to score well on your LSAT that 1 to 2 years of community college wont hurt you, granted that you’re able to keep this performance up when you transfer to another college.</p>
<p>Wildflower, I don’t know where you come from but over here its not that hard to make A’s in community college. My friends who take courses there say it’s comparable to high school level.</p>
<p>Are you from California? I haven’t heard of any community colleges around here that give out A+.
- and - are usually only given out at 4 year colleges - at least around here.</p>
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<p>Yes, but that does not contradict my statement:</p>
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<p>I agree w/ nspeds; once under scrutiny LS will see where the grades where received.</p>
<p>Also, note I said: “A normal load (15 credits) would be feasible if all you want is to improve your GPA, assuming the CC (and the Profs you take) has easy grading standards.”</p>
<p>Not all community colleges are easy; I understand some west coast community colleges have rigorous grading standards.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think it will matter. Just as the LS wont care if that low GPA you received came from an Electrical Engineering major versus an inflated GPA from a major in American Studies. Or a GPA coming from some low ranked tier 3 school in the middle of no where. I firmly believe that the community college example would follow suit. Perhaps not at HYS, but at least at some T14 schools.</p>
<p>I have a high GPA in engineering at UCLA. My logic was to simply go to a local community college over the summer and rack up some more A’s.
From what I gather, Law Schools won’t really care and my GPA will go up. I wonder why more people don’t do this.</p>
<p>Law schools will like high grades, sure, but might prefer other things, particularly if your GPA is already high from a good school in a tough major, although these last two only help a very little.</p>
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<p>They will only be included in your LSDAS GPA if the credits are accepted by your degree-granting institutions. A lot of good universities will not just hand over credit for a bunch of classes you took at Podunk Community College in the summer.</p>