Started bachelor's abroad.
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:30 pm
I started my bachelor's degree in Australia but finished in the USA. Do I have to get a transcript from my first foreign school?
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Thank youthéo wrote:You need to send it to LSAC. They will process it and convert your grades into the US gpa system.
I recently had to deal with this. I e-mailed LSAC with the information, they generated a transcript request form, and I paid for the transcript to be sent to LSAC.Seoulless wrote:I have a Masters Degree from a foreign country. My BA is from the US.
Do I send this transcript out individually to the schools? I am under the impression LSAC only takes transcripts for US MAs.
I believe there is. I just did this in the fall, and I printed a cover sheet from the LSAC website.Seoulless wrote:There is no option to send a non-US sponsored foreign masters transcript.théo wrote:You need to send it to LSAC. They will process it and convert your grades into the US gpa system.
It's sent via LSAC, it just takes forever. I originally didn't even include my MA transcripts, because I was in a hurry, and most schools didn't require them since it wasn't a US grad school. LSAC doesn't even process these transcripts under the usual graduate school section, they're processed as an international institution.Seoulless wrote:EstboundNDwn wrote:
On the bright side, out of the 9 schools I applied to only 1 requested my MA transcripts.
So are you saying it isn't automatically sent to the schools via LSAC?
Did they convert the grades to American style, or leave them as is.EstboundNDwn wrote:
It's sent via LSAC, it just takes forever. I originally didn't even include my MA transcripts, because I was in a hurry, and most schools didn't require them since it wasn't a US grad school. LSAC doesn't even process these transcripts under the usual graduate school section, they're processed as an international institution.
théo wrote:You need to send it to LSAC. They will process it and convert your grades into the US gpa system.
They left the grades as they were. I went to a British school, so they also included an additional sheet with a box that detailed the GPA equivalents; and since England also has different classes of degrees (first honors, 2:1, 2:2, etc.) they included a box detailing those US equivalents.Seoulless wrote:Did they convert the grades to American style, or leave them as is.EstboundNDwn wrote:
It's sent via LSAC, it just takes forever. I originally didn't even include my MA transcripts, because I was in a hurry, and most schools didn't require them since it wasn't a US grad school. LSAC doesn't even process these transcripts under the usual graduate school section, they're processed as an international institution.