Applicant FAQ Forum

[kazu]

How do I find my LSDAS GPA?

Is this what I should put in a letter requesting a fee waiver, or is my regular GPA sufficient?

Your LSDAS GPA is your cumulative GPA. You can find this on your Academic Summary Report on the LSAC website. They generate one for you after they process your transcripts. If I recall correctly it's on the bottom right hand side.

I would put your LSDAS GPA on the fee waiver request, but I would specify that it's your LSDAS GPA.

[kazu]

I have a question about transcript requests, since LSAC's information didn't exactly make this clear. I know that I need to request the transcript from my degree-granting institution, and have done so already. However, I took a summer class through a different institution (local community college) and had the credit successfully transferred to my degree-granting institution. Even though this credit appears on the transcript from my degree-granting institution, do I still need to request a transcript from the community college where I originally took the summer class?

You may want to call LSAC to confirm, but I'm pretty sure you need to request that transcript as well.

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[CGI Fridays]

No need to call to confirm. It was college work. It's gotta be on there.
Even if you flunked a college course & weren't able to get the credits transferred to your UG, ya gotta do it.

[CGI Fridays]

Your LSDAS GPA is your cumulative GPA. You can find this on your Academic Summary Report on the LSAC website. They generate one for you after they process your transcripts. If I recall correctly it's on the bottom right hand side.

While this is the logical place for it to be, there is no "LSDAS GPA" or anything final-sounding that sets it apart enough IMO, & I asked around to be sure.

I vote this info be included in OP, until LSAC makes that bold & font 16 with "Yup, this is the one alright!" In bold neon, moving letters circling it.

Finding your official LSDAS GPA:
[All transcripts must be processed & your Academic Summary Report completed.]

Academic Summary Report
-Summary (bottom)
--Undergraduate Summary
---Cumulative GPA

[filmorejive]

When they ask you to fill out the undergraduate and graduate institutions you have attended, do you need to put down taking the community college you took a summer course at? I'm assuming yes, but it's a little unclear to me.

[cigrainger]

When they ask you to fill out the undergraduate and graduate institutions you have attended, do you need to put down taking the community college you took a summer course at? I'm assuming yes, but it's a little unclear to me.

Yes, and you need to submit that transcript.

[filmorejive]

Thanks.
Yeah, that's all taken care of for my LSDAS GPA. It was just unclear having them put (on the applications) degree/expected degree when I'm receiving none, just taking 3 credits. I put it on there to be safe, glad to know it was the right move.

[cigrainger]

Thanks.
Yeah, that's all taken care of for my LSDAS GPA. It was just unclear having them put (on the applications) degree/expected degree when I'm receiving none, just taking 3 credits. I put it on there to be safe, glad to know it was the right move.

I just put NA in those fields.

[7StringIbanez]

Thanks for answering my question, gotta get on that transcript request and send it out asap!

[mz253]

a dumb Q i guess. what version of word document is the most compatible across all computers?

my resume sometimes print out weird in other poeple's computer. for example, my computer shows there's only one page, but comes out of a printer more than 1...

HELP!

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[ohlawl]

I've been trying to log onto lsac.org all day and it just won't load. Anyone else having trouble getting on?

[filmorejive]

Going to have to retake in December.. my third test. My two lowest scores ever are both my official scores (164/164), I diagnosticed at 173 and averaged 177. Obviously something is going on nerves-wise, but anyway, how fucked am I that I have to apply late and have two (relative to me) bad scores? I have a 3.5x GPA. I'm figuring CCN are out but is there a shot or a prayer at Gtown or any of the other T14, assuming I preform how I practice and figure out what's messing me up on test day.

Thanks guys.

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[kazu]

a dumb Q i guess. what version of word document is the most compatible across all computers?

my resume sometimes print out weird in other poeple's computer. for example, my computer shows there's only one page, but comes out of a printer more than 1...

HELP!

If this is regarding attachments for law school apps, you shouldn't need to worry about this. LSAC automatically converts your documents into a pdf file for transmission. You get to proofread the pdf file before it gets sent out, so if the formatting gets icky (which it occasionally does, especially for things like resumes) you can fix it & reupload it.

[Gemini]

Hi I'm wondering if I can cancel and active application on LSAC.

I chose a nonbinding option and would like to change my decision to ED but it's not letting me. Any ideas?

[bdubs]

Hi I'm wondering if I can cancel and active application on LSAC.

I chose a nonbinding option and would like to change my decision to ED but it's not letting me. Any ideas?

Remove all of your assigned LORs and then delete the application. You should then be able to go back and select the option for that school that you want.

[lifestooquick]

Hi I'm wondering if I can cancel and active application on LSAC.

I chose a nonbinding option and would like to change my decision to ED but it's not letting me. Any ideas?

You have to unassign LORs to be able to cancel an application.

[Gemini]

Hi I'm wondering if I can cancel and active application on LSAC.

I chose a nonbinding option and would like to change my decision to ED but it's not letting me. Any ideas?

Remove all of your assigned LORs and then delete the application. You should then be able to go back and select the option for that school that you want.

Hello bdubs, I LOVE you! Thank you!!!

[thecilent]

I have a question: once you send in updated transcripts, and lsac updates it for all your schools, do you have to notify each school that lsac has updated your transcripts/gpa? Or does lsac just automatically send in another report that schools can't miss?

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[thecilent]

I have a question: once you send in updated transcripts, and lsac updates it for all your schools, do you have to notify each school that lsac has updated your transcripts/gpa? Or does lsac just automatically send in another report that schools can't miss?

Auto-update. No need to tell them.

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[kierkegaard333]

If I have my undergraduate transcript completed, app filled out, ps done and 2 lsat scores, one LOR but Im waiting on a summer class transcript and my last LOR can i still apply? should i apply now?
if i apply now before the 11/15 ED date and my LOR and Transcript show up a couple days later, did i make the deadline?

[4102011]

So here's a post about if you applied in October regarding when you might hear back, in case people are obsessive like me:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 2&t=137012