lsac gpa conversion

seungheer

Hi, I just have a brief question. I just looked at my school's office of registrar site and found out that gpa of 3.5 is equivalent to a letter grade of A-. According to LSAC gpa conversion chart, it is stated that A- starts from 3.67. Does this mean that my 3.5 gpa gets converted to starting from 3.67? Thanks.

Kateryna

Yeap

Alex

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking?

Anna Marie

I'm not sure what you mean by a GPA of 3.5 equalling an A- (at many universities cumulative GPAs are converted to an honors ranking, I.e. Magma cum laude, rather than an overall letter grade). However, if you mean that an A- grade at your university converts to a 3.5, then LSAC will re-calculate those grades to "count" as a 3.67 (or whatever the LSAC scale is for A-). I'm no expert on this though, so definitely email LSAC about it if you aren't sure and really need to know before sending your transcripts.

seungheer

Thank you for the reply!

Cant Get Right

7Sage has a calculator that you can plug all your grades into which will generate your LSAC GPA. That should give you a pretty good idea of where you'll stand:

https://7sage.com/gpa-calculator/

rafaelito

when applying to law school does this even matter? we send our official transcripts and my school, for example, shows my gpa right there on the transcript.

Cant Get Right

@RafaelBernard said:
when applying to law school does this even matter?

Big time. The GPA that schools will use to consider your application is not the GPA that appears on your transcript. They use the GPA that LSAC calculates. So if your UG says you have a 4.0 and somehow LSAC says you've got a 2.0, you've got a 2.0 end of story. That kind of swing won't happen, but that's just an extreme example to demonstrate the point.

rafaelito

@"Cant Get Right" I had no idea. I wonder if this is true for graduate programs as well? Thanks for clarifying!

Cant Get Right

No problem @RafaelBernard .

Schools don't really factor grad degree stats that much because it doesn't count towards their rankings, but I suppose LSAC would convert those as well. I don't have a grad degree, so not positive on that one.