How do transfer GPAs work in law school admissions?

bluebayou
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:14:24 +0000

For law school, every college level class that you take until you receive your bachelor’s degree is used to calculate a cumulative. (That includes any dual enrollment courses taken in HS.)

Your GPA is not weighted whatsoever. LSDAS does the numbers crunching for everyone.

An upward trend is better than the alternative but still of almost no value to LS applications as most college students have upward trends. For two reasons: Lower division courses can be graded more harshly than upper division courses; and, your upper division courses tend to be major-related and in theory, you major in something that you enjoy, so you should do better in those courses.

Consider taking the LSAT and applying to LS after you graduate. That way you can earn another semester of (hopefully) all A’s to boost the GPA.