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Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:08 pm
by potuslarry
How harmful is having a C+ on my transcript for getting into YHS?

For some background, I was sick during the final and bombed it. Other than that, I have a high 170s LSAT score, and still a 3.9 GPA (all my other grades range from B+ to A+). Will that C+ make law schools nervous?

Re: Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:51 pm
by WheninLaw
potuslarry wrote:How harmful is having a C+ on my transcript for getting into YHS?

For some background, I was sick during the final and bombed it. Other than that, I have a high 170s LSAT score, and still a 3.9 GPA (all my other grades range from B+ to A+). Will that C+ make law schools nervous?
Yes, and I wouldn't even bother to apply. Edit I am kididng.

Re: Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:01 pm
by BigZuck
I'm guessing it won't matter. But maybe it will. Only one way to find out.

Re: Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:11 pm
by mynameismyname
If your LSAT is above their 75% stats then you are fine.




C's get degrees...

Re: Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:25 pm
by potuslarry
LSAT is 177, so yes, >75%

Edit: wheninlaw, damn you scared me haha. I have no sarcasm detector when it comes to law school admissions

Re: Effect of one bad grade

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:46 pm
by jrass
The answer is that it shouldn't have a big effect, but that HYS are able to discriminate for any non-legally protected arbitrary reason and keep their numbers so they could discriminate against you because of the C+ or because you used a semicolon on your writing sample, and the reader has a personal gripe with semicolons dating back to the third grade when the school bully, who went by the street name "colon" pulled his pants down in front of his first crush, Sally. There's no data on the specific grades that each entering student had so it's impossible to know.