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What happens to your GPA at the new school? Do you start 2L with no GPA, or do they give you about 30 credits of median gpa? Asking about Berkeley in particular if that helps.

I don't know about Berkeley but at many schools you lose your 1L grades. So your ultimate GPA is based on 2L and 3L alone. You'd have to ask Berkeley if that's the case there too.

JD2021 wrote:What happens to your GPA at the new school? Do you start 2L with no GPA, or do they give you about 30 credits of median gpa? Asking about Berkeley in particular if that helps.

You start over. The only value of your 1L gpa was to get an offer to transfer and maybe it helps with OCI depending on where you end up going. Mind you this is all for graduation purpose as a transfer.

Look to see if Berkeley requires a GPA for OCI?

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/admissions ... pplicants/

ChiaOut wrote:

JD2021 wrote:What happens to your GPA at the new school? Do you start 2L with no GPA, or do they give you about 30 credits of median gpa? Asking about Berkeley in particular if that helps.

You start over. The only value of your 1L gpa was to get an offer to transfer and maybe it helps with OCI depending on where you end up going. Mind you this is all for graduation purpose as a transfer.

That "only value," though, is actually a pretty darn significant value. BigLaw in particular hires almost solely out of 2L OCI, where 1L grades are the only grades that are considered.

2L/3L grades aren't meaningless, of course. Some firms will look at all three years of law school grades when you try to lateral, and they will also matter (a ton) should you wish to apply to clerk. But standing alone, graduation honors don't really mean much (except insofar as they correlate with your grades), so don't worry too much about your eligibility for those honors.