Warning long/cheesy (yet realistic) motivational post incoming:154 is an AWESOME starting point! You are already around and probably above the 50% percentile against a bunch of smart people that studied too much for this test. I don't know your scor…
Advice I have seen around here is to begin with full proofing all games from PT1-35
NOT GIVING YOU ADVICE (I am nowhere good enough)
But I started getting solid fundamental understanding of each game type. Then I started at the easiest game type, …
I figured I would update this....... wasn't planning on it being several years later, but I wound up having 15 hours of F's dropped and changed to non-punitive W's AND I caught an error LSAC made in my calculations. Went up over half a gpa point, so…
@alexisamccafferty More detail I forgot to add.
(To see if you even have anything like this) Go to your Academic Summary Report on your LSAC account. Scroll down to the section on the left that shows your grades earned by gpa rank. The category you…
According to LSAC's Academic Summary Report Key, certain W's are not calculated into LSAC GPA if your school considers those types of W's as non-punitive.
@"david.littlepage" said:
because they were remedial? interesting.
Yes, because they were not counted in my undergraduate gpa and considered non-punitive. I combined this information with what I found in LSAC's Academic Summary Report Key. M…
@"The Great White Shark" said:
Hey there! This is just my opinion.
I missed my notification of your reply and wanted to thank you for taking the time to offer your advice!
@ColdBrew180 said:
Some Ws are calculated as Fs, so it's important to know how the Ws you're talking about are calculated.
I was speaking from my own experience and maybe it's different at different schools. I have every permutation of W in …
Are you applying to one of the big boy/big girl schools? Or a less prestigious one? How competitive is it? How competitive are you and your app? Do you want scholarships?
I only clicked this thread to tell you that you are not alone. I have...oh...…
It is definitely the W's. My first year's GPA, in which I withdrew from 9 hours but completed 21 (going from memory here) is calculated by LSAC as a 1.0 which is completely inaccurate. The only way they could have reached that number is by including…
Thank you both. I have dug a little deeper and looked at the Key to the Online Academic Summary Report listed under my academic summary report on LSAC.
This is under the Nonpunitive Course Credit Hours heading:
..."if the issuing school considers …