Course retakes worth it?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:28 pm
I am heading into my Senior year at a small top 100 liberal arts school in PA. I am a mathematics and economics major. I have a significant amount of flexibility in my class schedule for next year and for financial reasons (it's not costing me much at all to stay here) and athletic reasons (I play a spring sport), I have no desire to graduate early, after next Fall term. So considering my options I was looking at the possibility of retaking 2 math classes, both of which I earned C's in the first time and am very confident in my ability to now earn A's in them. My current GPA is around a 3.2 and if I retook the two classes and then took some other easy classes I determined I could finish with upwards of a 3.5. I have no idea what my LSAT score will look like so I'm not sure what kind of schools I'll be looking at but it's safe to say a higher GPA is always better, so here's my college's course retake policy
Any course (except First Year Seminar) successfully completed at ___ may be repeated once. Successful completion implies a C- or better for all courses required for a major (unless otherwise stated by a department) and a D- or better for all other courses. The original course (and grade) and the repeat of the course (and grade) will appear on the student’s transcript; however, only the second course (and grade) are counted towards graduation requirements and the grade point average. If a student withdraws from a course that he or she is repeating (See Withdrawing from a Course), the original course grade will continue to be applied towards graduation requirements and the grade point average.
So basically my old grade would disappear and the new grade would stay, just with the fact that the course was retaken being made evident on the transcript.
Is it worth retaking the two courses next fall? Will the LSAC somehow find my old grades in those courses? Will law schools frown upon a retake more than they would a C? What would you do if you were me?
Any course (except First Year Seminar) successfully completed at ___ may be repeated once. Successful completion implies a C- or better for all courses required for a major (unless otherwise stated by a department) and a D- or better for all other courses. The original course (and grade) and the repeat of the course (and grade) will appear on the student’s transcript; however, only the second course (and grade) are counted towards graduation requirements and the grade point average. If a student withdraws from a course that he or she is repeating (See Withdrawing from a Course), the original course grade will continue to be applied towards graduation requirements and the grade point average.
So basically my old grade would disappear and the new grade would stay, just with the fact that the course was retaken being made evident on the transcript.
Is it worth retaking the two courses next fall? Will the LSAC somehow find my old grades in those courses? Will law schools frown upon a retake more than they would a C? What would you do if you were me?