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As long as your GPA doesn't drop, no one will care.

They probably won't care even if you GPA does drop.

transferror wrote:As long as your GPA doesn't drop, no one will care.

Thats reassuring to hear. So no revoking of admissions and such then?

Do you think they'll care for scholarships purposes though? I'm trying to negotiate for a smidge more before I commit since deadline to commit is 4/15

Moonlight wrote:

transferror wrote:As long as your GPA doesn't drop, no one will care.

Thats reassuring to hear. So no revoking of admissions and such then?

Do you think they'll care for scholarships purposes though?

No. They just need you to have a good GPA so they can appease the USNWR gods. How you got it won't matter. The fact that you slacked off in your last semester of UG won't matter. The scholarship offer is going to be based on an estimate of what it will take to get you to attend vs. how much they are willing to spend for your numbers vs. how bitchy/generous the staff feel that day.

transferror wrote:

Moonlight wrote:

transferror wrote:As long as your GPA doesn't drop, no one will care.

Thats reassuring to hear. So no revoking of admissions and such then?

Do you think they'll care for scholarships purposes though?

No. They just need you to have a good GPA so they can appease the USNWR gods. How you got it won't matter. The fact that you slacked off in your last semester of UG won't matter. The scholarship offer is going to be based on an estimate of what it will take to get you to attend vs. how much they are willing to spend for your numbers vs. how bitchy/generous the staff feel that day.

lol fair enough. I'm going to an ASD in the next 2 weeks and the Deans say they'd be interested in talking with me more for scholarships. Any suggestions on approaching that?

Can school rescind acceptance if your final gpa drop by .1? Assuming that their acceptance did not hint at the possibility of the offer being revoked.

Can school rescind acceptance if your final gpa drop by .1?

Yep, "school" can do whatever the fuck it wants. Legit schools won't do this, though.

Moonlight wrote:lol fair enough. I'm going to an ASD in the next 2 weeks and the Deans say they'd be interested in talking with me more for scholarships. Any suggestions on approaching that?

You need to strike a balance of sincere/tough. They need to believe that their school is legitimately your #1 choice, but know that you choose based on what makes financial sense. They aren't going to tie up $$ making you an offer if they don't think you'll accept, and they aren't going to offer a penny more than they think is necessary to snag you. This should cover both bases.

transferror wrote:

Can school rescind acceptance if your final gpa drop by .1?

Yep, "school" can do whatever the fuck it wants. Legit schools won't do this, though.

Moonlight wrote:lol fair enough. I'm going to an ASD in the next 2 weeks and the Deans say they'd be interested in talking with me more for scholarships. Any suggestions on approaching that?

You need to strike a balance of sincere/tough. They need to believe that their school is legitimately your #1 choice, but know that you choose based on what makes financial sense. They aren't going to tie up $$ making you an offer if they don't think you'll accept, and they aren't going to offer a penny more than they think is necessary to snag you. This should cover both bases.

Hmm good point. Should I bring copies of the scholarships other schools gave me?

If you're K-JD your last semester of grades doesn't matter, unless you update LSAC. Otherwise, the school reports the grades from LSAC.

scottidsntknow wrote:If you're K-JD your last semester of grades doesn't matter, unless you update LSAC. Otherwise, the school reports the grades from LSAC.

What do you mean? Are you saying for the last semester grades we don't update them to LSAC but instead send them directly to the school? Is that how its normally done?

Moonlight wrote:

scottidsntknow wrote:If you're K-JD your last semester of grades doesn't matter, unless you update LSAC. Otherwise, the school reports the grades from LSAC.

What do you mean? Are you saying for the last semester grades we don't update them to LSAC but instead send them directly to the school? Is that how its normally done?

You send your final transcript to the law school you attend, but they don't update lsac with that info. That is just to make sure you actually graduated. For ranking purposes, they go off of the data from lsac.

scottidsntknow wrote:

Moonlight wrote:

scottidsntknow wrote:If you're K-JD your last semester of grades doesn't matter, unless you update LSAC. Otherwise, the school reports the grades from LSAC.

What do you mean? Are you saying for the last semester grades we don't update them to LSAC but instead send them directly to the school? Is that how its normally done?

You send your final transcript to the law school you attend, but they don't update lsac with that info. That is just to make sure you actually graduated. For ranking purposes, they go off of the data from lsac.

Ah cool.

Hey so I'm wondering. Do you all think its worth it to work hard for my 6th consecutive Dean's list? If I withdraw from this one class and keep the other two, then I can't get my 6th consecutive Dean's List. Does anyone even care about how many Dean's lists we have?

No... Means nothing

Personally, I'm completely slacking because I don't care and it doesn't matter. I have a 3.79, might drop as low as a 3.70 and it's much more worth it to me to end with that, enjoy the rest of undergrad.

only thing to keep in mind is maybe graduating with honors or not, but it sounds like you'd probably graduate with honors either way

james.bungles wrote:only thing to keep in mind is maybe graduating with honors or not, but it sounds like you'd probably graduate with honors either way

My school curves low, so our magna cutoff is 3.6. I'm solid, couldn't be happier.

james.bungles wrote:only thing to keep in mind is maybe graduating with honors or not, but it sounds like you'd probably graduate with honors either way

Ours for Magna is 3.7 I'll make that cut off either way though. So far it sounds like no one cares about Dean's List for last semester

Moonlight wrote:

james.bungles wrote:only thing to keep in mind is maybe graduating with honors or not, but it sounds like you'd probably graduate with honors either way

Ours for Magna is 3.7 I'll make that cut off either way though. So far it sounds like no one cares about Dean's List for last semester

Well yeah dean's list literally means nothing. Think of firm bios if you've looked at any. They will list things like latin honors, but they wouldn't also then say "6 semesters of Dean's List."

From your profile, looks like you'll have to take the LSAT again and reapply anyway, so I highly suggest you don't flake out this semester and lower your gpa.

scottidsntknow wrote:

Moonlight wrote:

james.bungles wrote:only thing to keep in mind is maybe graduating with honors or not, but it sounds like you'd probably graduate with honors either way

Ours for Magna is 3.7 I'll make that cut off either way though. So far it sounds like no one cares about Dean's List for last semester

Well yeah dean's list literally means nothing. Think of firm bios if you've looked at any. They will list things like latin honors, but they wouldn't also then say "6 semesters of Dean's List."

True true.