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You will have a GPA, because you have to submit transcripts from the other schools to LSAC. The narrative will be largely irrelevant, except to reassure adcoms that you're not an idiot and the handful of As/A-s weren't flukes. They know about schools like Reed and whatnot that don't do grades. I had a classmate at Northwestern who went to a school like that.

Yeah they will count those other grades. Cycle should be good tho

Mack.Hambleton wrote:Yeah they will count those other grades. Cycle should be good tho

Yeah enjoy Yale if most of those were A's.

I thought you need like 60 graded credits for an LSAC GPA.

Tiago Splitter wrote:I thought you need like 60 graded credits for an LSAC GPA.

I can't find it on their site but someone on TLS referenced that 60 credit requirement last year. So I guess you might not have a GPA OP

yeah -- my impression was that because of the credit thing, I have no gpa. didn't know if anyone here had heard of similar cases or might have insight into how things are likely to break.

&, for what it's worth, I unfortunately have more A-s than regular As

then you'll probably have a cycle similar to internationals, but with your softs I wouldn't worry too much at all

you have a good shot at all of HYS

Mack.Hambleton wrote:

Tiago Splitter wrote:I thought you need like 60 graded credits for an LSAC GPA.

I can't find it on their site but someone on TLS referenced that 60 credit requirement last year. So I guess you might not have a GPA OP

Somewhere around this number is the case. Though they will see your grades at other institutions (assuming you didn't hit that credit hour limit during UG), there's no reported GPA.

OP, PMed you.

I posted this as an edit to the top of the post, but just to make sure people see it, I'm posting follow up question now as a new comment:

Thank you all for your thoughts. I have one follow-up question: Do you know how No GPAs are calculated into schools' statistics? Is a No GPA automatically counted as part of the bottom 25% or are the GPA percentiles calculated only from those GPAs that are reported so that No GPA just kind of floats off to the side and effectively acts as a median score?

unnamable wrote:I posted this as an edit to the top of the post, but just to make sure people see it, I'm posting follow up question now as a new comment:

Thank you all for your thoughts. I have one follow-up question: Do you know how No GPAs are calculated into schools' statistics? Is a No GPA automatically counted as part of the bottom 25% or are the GPA percentiles calculated only from those GPAs that are reported so that No GPA just kind of floats off to the side and effectively acts as a median score?

It's ignored in the calculation, but for whatever reason people without LSAC GPA's don't seem to just automatically get in at every school where they are above the LSAT median the same way they would if they were above the LSAT median and at or above the GPA median. Still, I think you'll do just fine.

The 60-credit thing is here: http://lsac.org/jd/help/faqs-cas, under "My cumulative GPA is blank on my Academic Summary Report. Why?" question.

I am keeping an eye on this because I attended a U.S. college for summer course. I didn't plan on going to law school back then and I didn't care about the grades. I intentionally picked their hardest writing courses (English is my second language) but didn't work as hard. I'm going to appeal if they somehow take this as LSDAS GPA, but in your case, if they do, they are doing you favor.