how to boost the resume of a student with a low UGPA Forum

[driftdc5]

I have been out of school for a year now, studying for the LSATs and working. I recieved a 165 on my LSAT. In the past year I have started my own business, which nets 60K a year, and I worked all through out college. However, my ugpa was very low, 2.6, and I need to somehow show schools that this is not a good assessment of me. What can I do? Do I take the GREs and take a semester at grad school and then transfer in with that GPA? or should I go to school around home part time for 15 credits to supplement my undergraduate transcript, and show schools that I am on the right path academically? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[cowgirl_bebop]

I have been out of school for a year now, studying for the LSATs and working. I recieved a 165 on my LSAT. In the past year I have started my own business, which nets 60K a year, and I worked all through out college. However, my ugpa was very low, 2.6, and I need to somehow show schools that this is not a good assessment of me. What can I do? Do I take the GREs and take a semester at grad school and then transfer in with that GPA? or should I go to school around home part time for 15 credits to supplement my undergraduate transcript, and show schools that I am on the right path academically? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Grad school GPA does not count towards your LSAC GPA. At this point it simply is what it is. A grad degree would be taken into consideration, but it wont lift up that 2.6

Write an addendum and kill your LSAT. Hopefully you have a good reason why your GPA was so low, have been doing substantive work since graduation (seems like you have), and are aiming for schools where a 165 is well above their 75th percentile. If not, you may consider retaking.

[Nicholasnickynic]

I have been out of school for a year now, studying for the LSATs and working. I recieved a 165 on my LSAT. In the past year I have started my own business, which nets 60K a year, and I worked all through out college. However, my ugpa was very low, 2.6, and I need to somehow show schools that this is not a good assessment of me. What can I do? Do I take the GREs and take a semester at grad school and then transfer in with that GPA? or should I go to school around home part time for 15 credits to supplement my undergraduate transcript, and show schools that I am on the right path academically? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Grad school GPA does not count towards your LSAC GPA. At this point it simply is what it is. A grad degree would be taken under consideration, but it wont lift up that 2.6

Write an addendum and kill your LSAT. Hopefully you have a good reason why your GPA was so low, have been doing substantive work since graduation (seems like you have), and are aiming for schools where a 165 is well above their 75th percentile. If not, you may consider retaking.

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[09042014]

Keep that business and forget law school. You are looking at some crappy T1 at sticker at very best.

[im_blue]

Get a higher LSAT.

[paratactical]

Keep that business and forget law school. You are looking at some crappy T1 at sticker at very best.

+1

[teaadntoast]

If you're hell bent on going to law school, write an addendum explaining that the need to work throughout college translated into a low GPA (I'm assuming that's what happened).

Gotta say, though, unless you have a concrete reason for going to law school, I'd concentrate on growing your already successful business.

[mala2]

If you're hell bent on going to law school, write an addendum explaining that the need to work throughout college translated into a low GPA (I'm assuming that's what happened).

Gotta say, though, unless you have a concrete reason for going to law school, I'd concentrate on growing your already successful business.

I agree, if I had a business I would just do that unless I really wanted to go to law school and could get in somewhere awesome