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W's issue
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:10 am
by secondshot
Hey guys, If you have a moment, can you look at this link and type in, "west los angeles college"? You will notice W's are in the "omitted" column. Do you think that means it will not be calculated in the LSAC GPA? I'm wondering because it's not necessarily in the "non-punitive" column.
Please take a look if you have a quick moment and let me know what you think:
http://www.lsac.org/transcriptkeys/igugs-search.aspx
Click "search by school name" Thanks again.

Re: W's issue
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:14 am
by Pneumonia
Looks like it won't be counted. Never seen that tool before but it's neat.
Re: W's issue
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:54 am
by secondshot
Yeah, it's a pretty cool tool. So what leads you to believe that it wont be counted? It wasnt under the nonpunitive, so I was a little skeptical. Thanks for your help.
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:24 am
by Pneumonia
secondshot wrote:Yeah, it's a pretty cool tool. So what leads you to believe that it wont be counted? It wasnt under the nonpunitive, so I was a little skeptical. Thanks for your help.
Mainly that the other things it that category wouldn't be counted, and none of them are under non punitive either.
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 2:57 pm
by JazzieShizzle
That's a cool tool, thanks for posting!
Funny story, even though that tool even shows that my undergrad excludes U's from the GPA, LSAC still counts it as an F. Awesome, right?!
/bitterness
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:10 pm
by secondshot
JazzieShizzle wrote:That's a cool tool, thanks for posting!
Funny story, even though that tool even shows that my undergrad excludes U's from the GPA, LSAC still counts it as an F. Awesome, right?!
/bitterness
Yeah, that's what made me nervous, but the JC's in question verified they will not count for me, so I'm breathing a little better. Crossing fingers for no surprises.
BTW, did you try to appeal considering their own website validates it shouldn't have counted?
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:42 pm
by JazzieShizzle
secondshot wrote:JazzieShizzle wrote:That's a cool tool, thanks for posting!
Funny story, even though that tool even shows that my undergrad excludes U's from the GPA, LSAC still counts it as an F. Awesome, right?!
/bitterness
Yeah, that's what made me nervous, but the JC's in question verified they will not count for me, so I'm breathing a little better. Crossing fingers for no surprises.
BTW, did you try to appeal considering their own website validates it shouldn't have counted?
No, I didn't. I called and asked them about it and they basically just said it is what it is. I thought about pushing the issue, but I didn't think it was worth it. Anyway it does say LSAC counts a U as an F even though the column next to it says it isn't calculated into the school's GPA. Thankfully I only had one, but it did make 0.07 difference

Oh well.
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:59 pm
by secondshot
Just looked up your school and while it does say U's are excluded from the school GPA, it is not listed under the "excluded from lsac & school gpa" columns, so I don't really think you have an argument here anyway, right?
Re: W's issue
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:23 pm
by JazzieShizzle
secondshot wrote:Just looked up your school and while it does say U's are excluded from the school GPA, it is not listed under the "excluded from lsac & school gpa" columns, so I don't really think you have an argument here anyway, right?
Exactly why I didn't pursue it, even though I hadn't seen that tool until today.
