Transferred and UGPA

[shanntotheont]

<p>I recently read on another forum that a law school had calculated a student’s summer program grades. After my freshman year of college, I transferred to a different school. Although my freshman grades were okay (3.25), I have since then raised my gpa to a 3.6 and will probably rise to a 3.7 after this semester. My concern is will law schools calculate my 3.25 in with my current gpa even if my college did not?</p>

[hazmat]

<p>They definitely will. LSDAS has the rules for the GPA calculation. Have you not visited LSDAS?</p>

<p><a href=“http://lsac.org/LSAC.asp?url=/additional-info/transcript-summarization.asp[/url]”>http://lsac.org/LSAC.asp?url=/additional-info/transcript-summarization.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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**Transcripts issued to you or sent by you will not be processed.</p>

<p>Transcripts to include:</p>

<pre><code>* undergraduate and graduate schools

• law/medical/professional schools
• schools attended for summer or evening courses
• schools attended even though a degree was never received
• schools from which you took college-level courses while in high school even though they were for high school credit
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<li>schools that clearly sponsored your overseas study (see Foreign Transcripts below)</li>
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<p>Transcripts must be sent from schools even if:</p>

<pre><code>* credit was transferred from a school and it appears on another school’s transcript

• the school is closed
  (These transcripts are usually maintained by the department of higher education or by another school in the state in which the school was located, so you will need to contact the state’s department of higher education.)
• “withdraw,” “incomplete,” etc., are the only grades listed
• you have just enrolled
  (Request that the registrar’s office send a transcript of courses “in progress” or a statement of current enrollment. The document must bear the official registrar’s seal.)
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[shanntotheont]

<p>First, sorry for posting this thread twice… my computer messed up… </p>

<p>I have just begun looking at law schools. I have a while to go though (forwarned is forarmed)…So, in short, my current GPA according to the LSDAS is not at 3.6… I know law schools hold GPA and the LSAT as the most important thing. However, do they care about the progress a student may have made from one year to another (i.e. obviously, I went from 3.25 to 3.6)?</p>

[Student615]

<p>Yes, they care about progression (especially if there was a reason for your first year being lower), but they’ll first look at the overall number. Most schools will make an initial judgment based on the overall GPA. If that number brings them back for a second look, soft factors (progression, rigor, etc.) can help you out.</p>

[Student615]

<p>Whoops…I just responded to your PM and said I didn’t really know, but the answer is right there in the passage that Hazmat quotes. High school summer courses, if college level, would count. </p>

<p>I don’t know how you could truly receive no credit unless you audited, in which case you wouldn’t have received grades, so the question is moot. Receiving no credit at your high school or current college doesn’t equate to receiving no credit at all.</p>

<p>I’m sure that an addendum will be acceptable, if you really find it necessary. Law schools have no more reason to care about your high school grades in college courses than they do to care about your high school grades in anything else. They don’t ask about the latter, so at this point, you shouldn’t worry too much about the former.</p>