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toppercentile

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Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?

Post by toppercentile » Mon May 17, 2010 9:10 am

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?

Post by Dany » Mon May 17, 2010 9:19 am

No. Your grades will be your grades, no matter from whence they came.

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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?

Post by kalvano » Mon May 17, 2010 10:15 am

"He's got a 3.47...oh wait....DAAAAMMNNN, he went to Harvard....give him a 3.75."

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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?

Post by harvardgurl4eva » Mon May 17, 2010 10:16 am

Whence!

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Bildungsroman

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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?

Post by Bildungsroman » Mon May 17, 2010 3:09 pm

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?

Post by Borhas » Mon May 17, 2010 4:28 pm

toppercentile wrote:Is the prestige/difficulty of your undergrad (or lack thereof) taken into account when LSDAS calculates/converts your GPA?
yes, ivy league school gpas and other places with grade inflation are lowered/deflated
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Re: Does LSDAS weight GPA to ugrad?

Post by captainculpepper » Mon May 17, 2010 5:53 pm

kalvano wrote:"He's got a 3.47...oh wait....DAAAAMMNNN, he went to Harvard....give him a 4.0."
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