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Fam, I screwed up. My exchange grades are AWFUL!!!
itsemmarobyn
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I spent fall 2018 on exchange in England for one semester (Sep-Dec 2018) and took three courses. Two were 100% assessed on a 15-page essay. The other one was 30% first essay and 70% final essay.
I just received my grades for the two 100% assessed courses and my grades are TERRIBLE. I've never received marks this low in my LIFE. I'm talking 2:2 and a 3rd class (here is a link to understand what this means: https://www.scholaro.com/pro/Countries/united-kingdom/Grading-System).
I have a 3.87 GPA at my home institution, but since every law school wants transcripts from every institution attended (including study abroad), there's no way to escape sending them. Since I was only in England for one semester, I can't send my international transcripts to LSAC (they require at least 1 year abroad to evaluate them), so they'll just be sent directly to each school I apply to. I have no idea how schools are going to react when they see my exchange grades. There's almost no information about it on admission websites, no matter which school I look at.
I know this is going to hurt me during the admissions process. What do I do? Will the schools reject me because of these grades? Does anyone know what schools do with exchange transcripts? Is there a way I can redeem myself from this?
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Hey, you can always consider to include an addendum explaining the disparity in your grades!
If I'm not mistaken, your grades at an international institution will not be factored into your cumulative GPA on the CAS transcript report. Foreign transcripts (=non-US/Canada transcripts) are evaluated by the foreign evaluation service and it is a separate evaluation from the academic summary report.
But you might want to call the LSAC to double check!
@itsemmarobyn I just went through this process, and I will send you a PM.
Also to add on for anyone else in the same situation, I had to ask my abroad institution to snail mail the transcript directly to LSAC. GPA was not counted since it was not a full year. Never got asked about them in interviews or anywhere. Though you will run into heavy delays with LSAC, but give them a call and they're more than willing to help you as I've found.