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Gideon Strumpet wrote:It's not a long list; mainly the ones that most people can't get into and can't afford.

Dany wrote:

Gideon Strumpet wrote:It's not a long list; mainly the ones that most people can't get into and can't afford.

lol no.

And if somebody is trying to pad their GPA but is too lazy to take 30 seconds to look at a school's site to see if they give A+ grades, then I don't feel like helping them, tbh.

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

phillaw wrote:

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

i thought this was a bogus thread, but is this for real? you can just take a random class at another undergrad school that offers A+'s and boost your LSAC gpa? Seems kind of unfair for LSAC to do that--kids who get perfect As at non-A+-giving schools are at a huge disadvantage!--that is, unless they game it like the OP wants to and take a summer class at a A+-giving school. i never knew this was possible. but of course, it might look weird if you graduate from, for example, Princeton with Bs but have 3 A+'s from Mercer County Community College. I think adcomm will just weigh your LSAT more heavily in that case.

bernaldiaz wrote:I have honestly done quite a bit of research of all my surrounding schools to see if they offered A+'s. Schools don't always make it clear whether they offer A+'s or not on their website. Also, I'm not going to go on every state school website and check their grading policy. If say, the University of Maryland system (entirely made-up example) offers A+'s, and someone had an experience at UMaryland and knew of their grading policies, they could share that here, and maybe a TLS-er would choose to take their online course at UMaryland. I thought that this thread could be helpful in that way. I'm not lazy at all, thank you. I just don't have the time to check every website in the country. Think before you accuse.

Dany wrote:

bernaldiaz wrote:I have honestly done quite a bit of research of all my surrounding schools to see if they offered A+'s. Schools don't always make it clear whether they offer A+'s or not on their website. Also, I'm not going to go on every state school website and check their grading policy. If say, the University of Maryland system (entirely made-up example) offers A+'s, and someone had an experience at UMaryland and knew of their grading policies, they could share that here, and maybe a TLS-er would choose to take their online course at UMaryland. I thought that this thread could be helpful in that way. I'm not lazy at all, thank you. I just don't have the time to check every website in the country. Think before you accuse.

1. It's always in the undergraduate catalog
2. I wasn't talking about you.

bernaldiaz wrote:

phillaw wrote:

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

i thought this was a bogus thread, but is this for real? you can just take a random class at another undergrad school that offers A+'s and boost your LSAC gpa? Seems kind of unfair for LSAC to do that--kids who get perfect As at non-A+-giving schools are at a huge disadvantage!--that is, unless they game it like the OP wants to and take a summer class at a A+-giving school. i never knew this was possible. but of course, it might look weird if you graduate from, for example, Princeton with Bs but have 3 A+'s from Mercer County Community College. I think adcomm will just weigh your LSAT more heavily in that case.

OP here. Yeah, I would have agreed with you at first, but the more I have read on TLS it seems that all that schools care about is your LSAC GPA. Apparently, since the law schools only report your LSAC GPA to the rankings, that is what they care about and will not look down upon summer classes at a community college. With this in mind, I figured if I was going to take a summer class (I wasn't just doing it to boost my GPA) I mine as well look for a school that offered the 4.33 and maybe erase my A- from my GPA. I mean if the ability to get a 4.33 is out there, we mine as well try to take advantage of the situation, right?

EDIT: By all that schools care about is LSAC GPA, I meant grade-wise. Obviously the LSAT and softs are important too

phillaw wrote:

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

i thought this was a bogus thread, but is this for real? you can just take a random class at another undergrad school that offers A+'s and boost your LSAC gpa? Seems kind of unfair for LSAC to do that--kids who get perfect As at non-A+-giving schools are at a huge disadvantage!--that is, unless they game it like the OP wants to and take a summer class at a A+-giving school. i never knew this was possible. but of course, it might look weird if you graduate from, for example, Princeton with Bs but have 3 A+'s from Mercer County Community College. I think adcomm will just weigh your LSAT more heavily in that case.

yngblkgifted wrote:

phillaw wrote:

yngblkgifted wrote:My school gives out A pluses but they count them as regular A's (4.0). LSAC counts them as 4.33. Result was that my GPA got a nice boost.

i thought this was a bogus thread, but is this for real? you can just take a random class at another undergrad school that offers A+'s and boost your LSAC gpa? Seems kind of unfair for LSAC to do that--kids who get perfect As at non-A+-giving schools are at a huge disadvantage!--that is, unless they game it like the OP wants to and take a summer class at a A+-giving school. i never knew this was possible. but of course, it might look weird if you graduate from, for example, Princeton with Bs but have 3 A+'s from Mercer County Community College. I think adcomm will just weigh your LSAT more heavily in that case.

No they would not be at a huge disadvantage because they would have a 4.0. Couple that with a great LSAT score and they could go to any school in the country. But I agree that it is unfair.

Dany wrote:Yeah someone with a 3.9/no A+ grades should be outraged. Their cycle is screwed!

dr123 wrote:Eh, I have a hard time believing the difference between a 3.9 and 4.0 would make any sort of difference, even at hys

dr123 wrote:Eh, I have a hard time believing the difference between a 3.9 and 4.0 would make any sort of difference, even at hys

bernaldiaz wrote:

dr123 wrote:Eh, I have a hard time believing the difference between a 3.9 and 4.0 would make any sort of difference, even at hys

Well, that would be good news then. As an upper-middle class white male without any superb softs, I found that in my UG application experience I was only admitted to the schools where I was around the 75th percentile for both the GPA and SAT. I assumed those at or below the medians are typically minorities, athletes (obviously irrelevant for law school, though), and legacies (especially at my school). After that experience, I aimed to attempt to stay above the 75th percentiles of my target schools. I know that that fall from 4.0 to 3.9 would put me below that at Harvard, not sure about Y or S. Idk if anyone else feels this way, but like I said, at least for my own mindset, I think it is important to stay above the 75th percentiles, and if you fall below it is a bit of a crapshoot.

dr123 wrote:
You're probably not going to get HYS just because you have a 4.0 and a 180