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I am having my transcripts sent to the LSAC's CAS. I'm curious if anyone knows how the do the calculation. Specifically, my college's calculation of GPA is such that if I take the same class twice, they only count the highest score. For example:

Spring 2004 - Random Class 101 - F
Spring 2005 - Random Class 101 - A

This would be applied to my GPA as a 4.0 on my college transcripts whereas if you were to simply average the two as if they were two different classes (and if it was the same number of credits) it'd be a 2.0 ((4.0 for A + 0.0 for F) / 2 classes = 2.0). Get it?

Does anyone know what method the LSAC uses?

LSAC does neither - they count them as separate classes.

im_blue wrote:LSAC does neither - they count them as separate classes.

+1

and at some colleges it would count as a 4.0 because they would delete your original grade from the transcripts. Hooray for LSAC's awesome system of determining a major portion of law school admissions.

At my college they don't delete the lower score from my transcript, they just ignore it in the GPA calculation.

Off the top of my head I can think of one time when I didn't drop a class because I knew I'd retake it and so I stayed in for the hell of it. Too bad I didn't know LSAC would penalize me for this.