LSAC gpa is about 2.98 - 3.02. Is there anything I can do?
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 7:10 pm
I have 1 W, 2 Fs.
1 W is from when I signed up to take 2 courses during a winter session. I ended up dropping one class because it was too much pressure on me with work + classes. Since they were accelerated, they had ridiculous amounts of work. Both were English 300 level classes and required multiple essays.
1 F is from a calculus class I took which I later found out I did not need to take for my major. It was engineering calc and I only needed general calc. The class was extremely hard for me and I did not do well.
The other F is from a computer science class my advisor placed me into without informing me that it had a pre-requisite. I re-took the class (different professor with way harder projects, but the guy was a mentor to me and actually gave me recommendations after I took 2 other "intensive" programming classes with him and got A's in both) and got a B+.
Other than that my first year was just really bad due to my own faults: I had a surgery and after that I just slacked for about a year. It was awful. I managed to pull Dean's list in the last 4 semesters and re-took a class from freshman year in which I did poorly, replacing it with an A.
I have talked with my professors from my last two years of college and I have five professors ready and willing to give me letters of recommendation. My boss at work is also very generous and appreciates my input even though my role is very small.
Should I go to my school's registrar and ask whether they can remove my W and Fs from the transcript due to the circumstances? If they do that I think my LSAC GPA will go up like 0.1 lol.
In addition do colleges actually just throw out apps that have decent LSAT scores but low GPAs or do they actually read the letters of recommendation and see what professors had to say about me? I'm taking a online LSAT prep class to complement my self-study. I managed to get a 176 on the June 2004 LSAT and by October I'm hoping to ace this test.
1 W is from when I signed up to take 2 courses during a winter session. I ended up dropping one class because it was too much pressure on me with work + classes. Since they were accelerated, they had ridiculous amounts of work. Both were English 300 level classes and required multiple essays.
1 F is from a calculus class I took which I later found out I did not need to take for my major. It was engineering calc and I only needed general calc. The class was extremely hard for me and I did not do well.
The other F is from a computer science class my advisor placed me into without informing me that it had a pre-requisite. I re-took the class (different professor with way harder projects, but the guy was a mentor to me and actually gave me recommendations after I took 2 other "intensive" programming classes with him and got A's in both) and got a B+.
Other than that my first year was just really bad due to my own faults: I had a surgery and after that I just slacked for about a year. It was awful. I managed to pull Dean's list in the last 4 semesters and re-took a class from freshman year in which I did poorly, replacing it with an A.
I have talked with my professors from my last two years of college and I have five professors ready and willing to give me letters of recommendation. My boss at work is also very generous and appreciates my input even though my role is very small.
Should I go to my school's registrar and ask whether they can remove my W and Fs from the transcript due to the circumstances? If they do that I think my LSAC GPA will go up like 0.1 lol.
In addition do colleges actually just throw out apps that have decent LSAT scores but low GPAs or do they actually read the letters of recommendation and see what professors had to say about me? I'm taking a online LSAT prep class to complement my self-study. I managed to get a 176 on the June 2004 LSAT and by October I'm hoping to ace this test.