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Question re:Undergraduate GPA on Legal Employment Apps

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:02 pm
by Anonymous User
Small question which is bothering me; the undergraduate college I attended reset the GPA on my transcript when I switched degree programs. My transcript includes all the courses I took but the cumulative GPA on the bottom only includes my last 30-40 credits.

On many legal job online apps it asks for undergraduate GPA; should I give the GPA on the bottom of my transcript, the GPA as calculated by myself including all my credits (higher), or GPA as calculated by LSAC (highest of the three)?

[The difference is significant; each is .2 higher than the the last.]

Relevant only as I am patent-bar eligible and my undergrad is sure to come up.

Most firms will not receive my undergrad transcripts since they don't request them but if and when they do, I would not want them to assume I am lying.

Thanks

Re: Question re:Undergraduate GPA on Legal Employment Apps

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:11 pm
by MoonDreamer
Anonymous User wrote:Small question which is bothering me; the undergraduate college I attended reset the GPA on my transcript when I switched degree programs. My transcript includes all the courses I took but the cumulative GPA on the bottom only includes my last 30-40 credits.

On many legal job online apps it asks for undergraduate GPA; should I give the GPA on the bottom of my transcript, the GPA as calculated by myself including all my credits (higher), or GPA as calculated by LSAC (highest of the three)?

[The difference is significant; each is .2 higher than the the last.]

Relevant only as I am patent-bar eligible and my undergrad is sure to come up.

Most firms will not receive my undergrad transcripts since they don't request them but if and when they do, I would not want them to assume I am lying.

Thanks
unless you received some sort of academic distinction (cum laude, etc.), nobody cares.

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Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:57 pm
by Another
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Re: Question re:Undergraduate GPA on Legal Employment Apps

Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:48 am
by Anonymous User
Essentially a glitch that the registrar refused to change on my transcript even though I was convinced it would hurt me during law school admissions. It didn't because LSAC calculated everything anyway so it didn't make a difference what it said...