Do Masters Degrees have an effect on my admission into law schools?

Parilyzed_

Hello 7sage family,

I am curious to know if anyone has information on how masters degrees are evaluated in terms of applying to law schools? Being a student who graduated with a bachelors gpa of 3.5 and two masters degrees with 4.0s, one of which is a masters in legal studies from usc, do masters degrees give an upper hand (in any way) to a student applying in the law school admissions cycle? If yes, how much would it be? If no, what are the reasons for them to not be counted?

Selene Steelman

Former admissions officer here. For ranking and reporting purposes, the GPA used by admissions is the LSAC generated cumulative GPA, which considers all academic work completed towards your undergraduate degree. Any graduate-level work is not included (https://www.lsac.org/applying-law-school/jd-application-process/cas/requesting/transcript-summarization). However, the admissions committee will have access to your graduate degree performance in the CAS Report. The committee may take graduate work into account when considering your ability to succeed academically in a future law school setting, particularly if the graduate work is recent and strong. Other factors considered include the competitiveness of the graduate degree, the institution at which the degree was earned, and the subject of the degree. Good luck!