Senior grades for December/January applications? Forum

[kangaroo430]

Hi all,

College senior here. I am retaking LSAT to break the 170 barrier. I am trying to graduate this semester to save some tuition, so I'm taking 19 credits(suicidal move) this semester. I'm actually bombing my school works now and I can reasonably expect my gpa(which is not high, 3.33 now) to dip. Does LSAC or schools require senior year grades if I submit my applications after I receive my December score? Is there any way around it?

Thanks very much!

[lymenheimer]

I am pretty sure you will have to submit a final transcript when you accept an offer to law school. So if you are able to get around it with your application, they will see it when you attempt to matriculate. I think they hold the right to withdraw your acceptance upon drastic changes in your application between acceptance/matriculation as well, but I could be wrong about that.

[RZ5646]

I am pretty sure you will have to submit a final transcript when you accept an offer to law school. So if you are able to get around it with your application, they will see it when you attempt to matriculate. I think they hold the right to withdraw your acceptance upon drastic changes in your application between acceptance/matriculation as well, but I could be wrong about that.

Has that ever actually happened? What would constitute a drastic change?

[lymenheimer]

I am pretty sure you will have to submit a final transcript when you accept an offer to law school. So if you are able to get around it with your application, they will see it when you attempt to matriculate. I think they hold the right to withdraw your acceptance upon drastic changes in your application between acceptance/matriculation as well, but I could be wrong about that.

Has that ever actually happened? What would constitute a drastic change?

I am neither an adcomm nor a dean. also, the bolded...

[rnoodles]

I did this. Had a 20+ credit final semester. You don't need to submit anything, so long as you have a) a transcript on file with LSAC already so your CAS can be sent off, b) it's clear you're graduating total credit # wise, and c) you don't absolutely tank your GPA from the one you already have on file with LSAT. I didn't submit my final transcripts for either Fall or Spring semester senior year until like July (I had tuition bars on my account that didn't let me send transcripts). Explained the situation to schools, and none cared.

FWIW, I applied exclusively to T25 with the exception of one regional T1.

tl;dr: dont fuck up your GPA. If you go from a 3.33 to like 2.95, you're not going to have an easy time explaining that.