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GPA law schools use include community college classes?
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Date: May 14th, 2004 10:36 PM Author: awkward spectacular milk Do they? If so, wouldn't this be any easy way to inflate GPA?
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Date: May 14th, 2004 10:42 PM Author: mauve pistol idiot I think they do if you take them before you graduate from college. Not 100% sure... I just want to give this thread a bump in case someone actually knows. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#485504) |
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Date: May 20th, 2004 6:09 PM Author: Mischievous business firm Subject: each gpa from school equal or not? hi everybody, i'm a bit confused. the discussion here says that the lsdas gpa counts the gpa from each school as equals. so, if someone would get a 3.5 in their total undergrad and a 4.0 for a community colllege in a couple of courses, they would have a lsdas gpa of 3.75. in this discussion, http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=30951&mc=9&forum_id=2, posters said that only the cumulative gpa would matter. so... the guy with a 3.5 undergrad would probably get somewhere around a 3.6 cumulative gpa and a 3.75 lsdas gpa. is this right? this is the difference between cumulative and lsdas gpa, right? |
Date: May 14th, 2004 10:46 PM Author: crystalline adventurous step-uncle's house CC grades do count. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#485534) |
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Date: May 14th, 2004 10:49 PM Author: awkward spectacular milk awsome. thanks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#485578) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 12:04 AM Author: balding stead I heard when calculating lsdas gpa they weigh each school you took classes at equally. Therefore this is an easy way to inflate the gpa. In fact I was told to do this, is this even true? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#485946) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 12:44 AM Author: awkward spectacular milk i hope. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#486167) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 1:00 AM Author: crimson shrine Yes it's true/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#486248) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 8:19 PM Author: balding stead I actually have to transfer one class I took through a school during hs to lsdas. So you mean to tell me this one class counts as a school gpa and will bring up my entire gpa? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#489288) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 1:23 AM Author: domesticated rehab They count, but once you've accumulated 60 hours, most degree-granting schools won't count the courses, and it'd probably be painfully obvious to LS's that you were trying to inflate your GPA. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#486382) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 7:38 PM Author: awkward spectacular milk what if you only took a few classes here and there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#488977) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 7:39 PM Author: Mewling exciting location karate Wow. I could imagine someone taking three or four CC classes to bump their gpa up... say, from 3.5-ish to 3.6 or so.
This is a really good idea. |
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Date: May 20th, 2004 6:15 PM Author: Mischievous business firm Subject: 60 hours when you mean 60 hours, you also mean it's equivalent of 240 semester credits, right? so.. if someone reaches 60 hours or 240 semester credits of undergrad and cc courses, they don't count all of the cc courses or the ones afterwards? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#532632) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 7:39 PM Author: Sepia mildly autistic resort Just as long as they were taken before you received your UG degree, then they count. You can't take them after you receive your degree to try to boost it retroactively. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#488984) |
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Date: May 15th, 2004 8:18 PM Author: awkward spectacular milk i'm going to take a philosophy class at my local cc this summer. its an online class too, i just have to come in to take the final. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#489274) |
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Date: May 16th, 2004 3:21 PM Author: deep hyperventilating bbw i took a full year of cc classes (45 quarter credits) my senior year of high school. it helped bump up my lsdas gpa by about a tenth of a point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#493933) |
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Date: May 20th, 2004 6:18 PM Author: Chestnut dilemma The bottom line is this:
-Go to a well respected school that has serious grade inflation.
-Take an easy major and the easiest electives that you can find. This major should also have the option for you to get honors by writing a thesis of sufficient length and quality. Find a thesis advisor who is really nice, undemanding, and an easy grader. This way, it's very easy to get honors, and you are almost guaranteed several credits of A for your thesis.
-Supplement this by taking several courses at the local CC.
-When you are studying for the LSAT, take as many pass/fail courses as you can & focus almost all of your attention on the LSAT. |
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Date: May 20th, 2004 6:30 PM Author: Mischievous business firm Subject: thanks buscemi 1) did that. go to pomona right now. 2) seriously thinking about switching to politics right now. serious grade inflation there. haven't been taking easy classes, but i guess i'll start doing that now. maybe i could up my 3.5 to 3.7 for pomona. i'll find a great thesis advisor. 3) i'll take several courses at cc. 4) taking a yr off to study for lsats and other stuff. thanks again. |
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Date: May 20th, 2004 6:36 PM Author: Chestnut dilemma Oh yeah, and obviously the thesis advisor is also likely to give you a glowing rec. letter to the extent that these are important. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=31077&forum_id=2#532795) |