Hi everyone! I'm new here and a 2020 applicant. I'm just curious about how law schools care about GPAs of international students. We know that they'll usually evaluate mostly your highest LSAT (partly maybe because they send ABA it), but I don't know how they evaluate the GPAs. Do they only look at the rating that LSAC gives to every applicant (S/AA/...)? Or do they also look at your actual GPA? Since there's different way of calculating it, the report may find it hard to standardize.
Thanks for following the thread:P
Do GPAs of international student count in the report sent to ABA from law schools? Forum
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LaylaCC
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Do GPAs of international student count in the report sent to ABA from law schools?
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ihenry
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Re: Do GPAs of international student count in the report sent to ABA from law schools?
GPA's of students who received their undergrad degree outside North America are not reported, either in the original scale or "converted" scale. They do look at the rating (it is actually outsourced by LSAC to somewhere with a pretty long acronym) and will see all your transcripts, but it won't count as much.
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LaylaCC
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Re: Do GPAs of international student count in the report sent to ABA from law schools?
Thanksihenry wrote:GPA's of students who received their undergrad degree outside North America are not reported, either in the original scale or "converted" scale. They do look at the rating (it is actually outsourced by LSAC to somewhere with a pretty long acronym) and will see all your transcripts, but it won't count as much.
