Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:11 pm
Short version: Addenda aren't for classes being hard.
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Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:17 pm
If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:20 pm
Well this is only 1/4th of my first two years, and hd I not chosen to take japaenese I would have taken more of the other courses I have taken.Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
More to the point: did you write an addendum?
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:20 pm
I wouldn't.
I mean, if you subtracted all the engineering from my transcript and looked only at the required liberal arts core crap and electives, my GPA would skyrocket. And upper-level engineering classes are obviously harder than, say, 200-level macroeconomics and copy editing. But that would be a pretty dumb way to look at my transcript.
I mean, if you subtracted all the engineering from my transcript and looked only at the required liberal arts core crap and electives, my GPA would skyrocket. And upper-level engineering classes are obviously harder than, say, 200-level macroeconomics and copy editing. But that would be a pretty dumb way to look at my transcript.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:23 pm
you just said it yourself....an addendum is not to explain your poor choice of coursesArbiter213 wrote:Well this is only 1/4th of my first two years, and hd I not chosen to take japaenese I would have taken more of the other courses I have taken.Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
More to the point: did you write an addendum?
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:28 pm
More or less what I knew the answer was.1Levening2013 wrote:you just said it yourself....an addendum is not to explain your poor choice of coursesArbiter213 wrote:Well this is only 1/4th of my first two years, and hd I not chosen to take japaenese I would have taken more of the other courses I have taken.Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
More to the point: did you write an addendum?
Just frustrated with my own choices/my japanese departments idiocy, combined with substellar october lsat results.
Thanks for the input. I will stick with my initial impulse and not write one.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:27 pm
I would advise against writing a GPA addendum in this scenario.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:36 pm
No. This is redonk. "Languages are hard" is not an extenuating circumstance. If you exclude my study of Arabic from my GPA, it goes up .2. In my Arabic classes, I was being graded against kids who were not only native speakers but who had tutored the language on the level that we were studying. Boo hoo for me. No addendum.
You have a 3.77 GPA. If you write an addendum, you will look crazy. Anyway, your law schools can't report your excuses to USNWR, so they are irrelevant.
You have a 3.77 GPA. If you write an addendum, you will look crazy. Anyway, your law schools can't report your excuses to USNWR, so they are irrelevant.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:14 pm
plenipotentiary wrote:No. This is redonk.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:25 pm
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Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:26 pm
If you subtract math intensive classes from my transcript I have like a 3.95, to bad i'm a finance major.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:28 pm
If I subtract the college classes from my transcript I have a 4.0.Patriot1208 wrote:If you subtract math intensive classes from my transcript I have like a 3.95, to bad i'm a finance major.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:49 pm
don't you then have a 0.0?bk187 wrote:If I subtract the college classes from my transcript I have a 4.0.Patriot1208 wrote:If you subtract math intensive classes from my transcript I have like a 3.95, to bad i'm a finance major.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:56 pm
Actually it would be an irrational number due to being divided by zero.Patriot1208 wrote:don't you then have a 0.0?
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:03 pm
Are you going to write an addendum about it?Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:05 pm
No, as that logic does follow, i'm fairly certain the school reports it as a 0.0bk187 wrote:Actually it would be an irrational number due to being divided by zero.Patriot1208 wrote:don't you then have a 0.0?
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:09 pm
what LSAT would you need for t-14 with a 0.0
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:20 pm
I'm contemplating writing an addendum for my sophmore year grades. Even though people on TLS dont think I need to, I dont feel like explaining a very poor year of grades regardless of its effect on my overall GPA would hurt.Shrimps wrote:Are you going to write an addendum about it?Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:22 pm
I'm writing one that states, if you you subtract all the classes I didn't want to take I would have a 4.0Sandro777 wrote:I'm contemplating writing an addendum for my sophmore year grades. Even though people on TLS dont think I need to, I dont feel like explaining a very poor year of grades regardless of its effect on my overall GPA would hurt.Shrimps wrote:Are you going to write an addendum about it?Sandro777 wrote:If you subtract my first two years of college my GPA goes up a ton, to be fair.
Re: Should I write a gpa addendum?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:29 pm
The threads that ask "Should I write an addendum for my 3.7 because I rulllllly should have had a 3.8" just makes me scratch my head. Do you really think the law school will sit there and say "Wow, this guy is a 3.7 student, but since XXXXXX, we should really think he is a 3.8 type of student!" 