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LSAC GPA

Maximus4Maximus4 Alum Member
in General 206 karma

So my transcripts were fully processed and I accessed the Academic Summary Report and saw that there was pretty big gap between the "Degree (summary GPA" and the "Cumulative GPA". Not sure as to what the difference between the two is even though I read the description box. And not sure as to which one is used as part of my application. Also if I have received A+'s during undergrad how do I find out if they counted as 4.33 or 4.0?

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  • Freddy_DFreddy_D Core Member
    2983 karma

    The cumulative GPA is the one that schools use as your official GPA.

  • Mitchell-1Mitchell-1 Member
    756 karma

    The A+'s do count as a 4.33 not a 4.0, at least mine did. My undergrad doesn't do that so I made sure to check.

  • TheMikeyTheMikey Alum Member
    4196 karma

    Degree GPA is what you got at the school... Cumulative GPA is your LSAC GPA.

    Also, if you have A+'s, you can be sure they made those a 4.33 when recalculating your GPA.

  • Maximus4Maximus4 Alum Member
    edited September 2017 206 karma

    The reason I am confused about the A+ thing is because I had about a 3.83 GPA at CC and a 3.93 at a UC upon graduating, but my LSAC gpa is a 3.85 so I am confused as to how that helped increase my GPA lol. I feel like something is off

  • Maximus4Maximus4 Alum Member
    206 karma

    TheMikey

  • TheMikeyTheMikey Alum Member
    4196 karma

    @Maximus4 said:
    The reason I am confused about the A+ thing is because I had about a 3.83 GPA at CC and a 3.93 at a UC upon graduating, but my LSAC gpa is a 3.85 so I am confused as to how that helped increase my GPA lol. I feel like something is off

    You have to also keep in mind that any grades with a minus is also different in LSAC's GPA calculations. Not significantly, but if you have a lot of grades with minuses, this may have lowered your GPA, despite having some A+'s.

    If this isn't the case that you have a bunch of minus grades, I'm not too sure then :/

  • TheMikeyTheMikey Alum Member
    4196 karma

    And what I mean by the minus thing if you weren't aware is for example, I think an A- counts as a 3.7 at most if not all schools? but LSAC counts an A- as a 3.67.

    https://www.lsac.org/jd/applying-to-law-school/academic-record#grade-table

  • LsatkayyLsatkayy Alum Member
    162 karma

    So schools don't look at yor last two years for your gpa, but rather your whole undergrad cumulative GPA?

  • Freddy_DFreddy_D Core Member
    edited September 2017 2983 karma

    @Lsatkayy said:
    So schools don't look at yor last two years for your gpa, but rather your whole undergrad cumulative GPA?

    Yup. The cumulative GPA is the one that they report to the ABA, and it is what schools when calculating medians and quartiles.

  • TheMikeyTheMikey Alum Member
    4196 karma

    @Lsatkayy said:
    So schools don't look at yor last two years for your gpa, but rather your whole undergrad cumulative GPA?

    Schools look at EVERYTHING you did prior to getting your first bachelors degree granted to you. If you took community college classes, those count. If you did a college class while in high school and it counted towards your bachelors, that counts.

  • MsM1998_MsM1998_ Alum Member
    edited September 2017 117 karma

    I'm from Canada and our conversion tables are very different for calculating the cumulative GPA. My Canadian cumulative gpa is a 3.83/4, but when I convert it according to the LSAC chart I get 3.996. Is this out of a 4.33 system (so 3.99/4.33) or a 4? Just trying to understand how my GPA is much higher in the US. The only decent explanation I have that may have helped me out a lot (if it is out of 4) is that I had something like 20 A+'s on my record, and the 4.33 conversions for A+'s helps tremendously because of that.

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