Help with GPA Forum

[masked kavana]

So I checked my Academic Summary Report and my cumulative GPA is 2.49, but when I look on my transcript my school has my GPA as 3.5

I had a horrible couple of years in junior college where I earned D's and F's routinely. I was able to retake each class where I had a bad grade and received A's and B's.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way I can get LSAC to show the 3.5 rather than the 2.49?

[yuzu]

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way I can get LSAC to show the 3.5 rather than the 2.49?

Yes, this is standard LSAC practice. No, there's nothing much you can do, other than maybe writing a GPA addendum in your law school applications, or somehow convincing your junior college the classes should be left off the transcript.

[masked kavana]

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way I can get LSAC to show the 3.5 rather than the 2.49?

Yes, this is standard LSAC practice. No, there's nothing much you can do, other than maybe writing a GPA addendum in your law school applications, or somehow convincing your junior college the classes should be left off the transcript.

arrgh hella frustrating but thanks for the info.

[TommyK]

fwiw, no school is going to discount your juco grades. They may interpret it slightly differently (you may be viewed slightly better than another 2.5 gpa applicant), but you're still a 2.5 gpa applicant. Since it factors into their medians, it matters. They care. It'll hurt ya. Not much you can do except crush the LSAT and hope that a school will take a super hardcore splitter.