Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad? Forum
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Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
Is the prestige/difficulty of your undergrad (or lack thereof) taken into account when LSDAS calculates/converts your GPA?
- Dany
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
No. Your grades will be your grades, no matter from whence they came.
- kalvano
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
"He's got a 3.47...oh wait....DAAAAMMNNN, he went to Harvard....give him a 3.75."
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- Bildungsroman
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
Yes, they adjust your GPA upward if you went to a prestigious private university and adjust it downward for rampant grade inflation at your university, making it exactly the same as before this adjustment.
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
yes, ivy league school gpas and other places with grade inflation are lowered/deflatedtoppercentile wrote:Is the prestige/difficulty of your undergrad (or lack thereof) taken into account when LSDAS calculates/converts your GPA?
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?
Fixedkalvano wrote:"He's got a 3.47...oh wait....DAAAAMMNNN, he went to Harvard....give him a 4.0."