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Thursday, Oct 08 2015

Thanks so much! This is very helpful~

The same thing is happening to me with classes I took in high school from an art college that I never transferred over because I decided not to major in visual arts. I'd almost forgotten I'd taken them until I took a look at my official transcript and the art college was listed under past educational experience!

Waiting for the October LSAT scores is terrible, but this is at least making it a little bit better. hahaha

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Thursday, Oct 08 2015

rstopchi255

Differences in CAS GPA and Degree GPA

Hello! I just got my Academic Summary report back from LSAC and it has recalculated my GPA to be far higher than my university lists it as. The policy differs from college to college within my university, but mine doesn't count grades received from performing and visual arts classes into our GPA's. The arts classes must be taken for credit and the grade is shown on my official transcript, so LSAC went ahead and added them to my GPA. (It's kind of nice I guess because one of my ensembles is pretty demanding and eats up between 10 - 20 hours a week of my time. I love it, but it's challenging at times with work/class.)

Do you think I'll need to write an addendum to explain the discrepancy? Also, I know they'll get my university transcript anyways, so is the boost pointless?

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rstopchi255
Tuesday, Dec 08 2015

Thanks for the advice @! I'll have to think it over a little bit more. I'll probably write a short addendum to explain the situation so there aren't any question marks on the ad comm's side. But it makes me feel loads better having the option to not have to explain the absence if I decide it could be a detriment.

Also, thanks for the good vibes @! They are very appreciated!

I think this is my brain's really dumb way of telling me I need to take some time off to relax.

All and all, I'm glad I decided not to sit for the exam-- the low score would've been worse than the absence, surely, and if anything, now I'm not waiting in terror until the score reports come back!

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Sunday, Dec 06 2015

rstopchi255

LSAT Absence

On Saturday, I had my worst, worst case scenario happen... I have epilepsy and I had a full-blown seizure the day of the exam. Since I live across the street from my testing site, I dragged myself out of bed and showed up to the exam but ultimately decided that I wasn't going in the mental state to take an exam and that it would be unethical to screw up everyone else's testing experience should I have another seizure. I talked it over with the proctor and it was decided I should take an absence instead of a cancellation so it wouldn't count towards my 3 takes in 2 years. I still plan to apply to law school this year, though. Will an addendum be sufficient to explain the absence? I'm in the process of obtaining official documentation from my neurologist and I have an LSAT score from October that is alright, but was trying to raise a few more points? I worry that they will think that if I'll have a seizure on such a big day like the LSAT that it could happen again. Super bummed because this is my first one since high school.

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