Hello, I just finished a bachelor's degree with Thomas Edison State University, I did almost the entire degree using pass/fail exams such as DSST and Clep. I know that lsac requires 60 graded credits to have a GPA listed for you and I only have 12 graded credits. Everything else is pass fail. Is this a dealbreaker for any decent law school. I'd like an opinion before I get too deep into studying for the LSAT
Thank you.
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Re: Blank Gpa
You have non pass-fail classes? Use the guidance on the LSAC website and calculate your LSAC GPA. LSAC doesn't care if your school issued a GPA or not. Remember fails count, passes don't.michaeleid811 wrote:Hello, I just finished a bachelor's degree with Thomas Edison State University, I did almost the entire degree using pass/fail exams such as DSST and Clep. I know that lsac requires 60 graded credits to have a GPA listed for you and I only have 12 graded credits. Everything else is pass fail. Is this a dealbreaker for any decent law school. I'd like an opinion before I get too deep into studying for the LSAT
Thank you.
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The issue is that the LSAC doesn't calculate a GPA if you're under a certain credit hour threshold (60) for graded classes. I'm not sure how law schools would view an app from a US applicant who had a degree with mostly pass/fail credits. Perhaps they'd treat it like a foreign app? I assume, based on a cursory search for some of the acronyms OP used, that this is a degree obtained while serving in the military, so I doubt that this issue would be wholly unknown to the law schools.albanach wrote: You have non pass-fail classes? Use the guidance on the LSAC website and calculate your LSAC GPA. LSAC doesn't care if your school issued a GPA or not. Remember fails count, passes don't.
OP, It may be worth calling the admissions offices at a couple of your target schools and asking them how they'd handle it.
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Good point, I'd missed that the cutoff was as high as 60 hours. I'd anticipate it would be treated like a foreign degree if there's some way of showing this is typical for the school, i.e. a letter from a dean or similar. If OP is the only graduate in the past decade to take this approach, I could see law schools being skeptical.totesTheGoat wrote:The issue is that the LSAC doesn't calculate a GPA if you're under a certain credit hour threshold (60) for graded classes. I'm not sure how law schools would view an app from a US applicant who had a degree with mostly pass/fail credits. Perhaps they'd treat it like a foreign app? I assume, based on a cursory search for some of the acronyms OP used, that this is a degree obtained while serving in the military, so I doubt that this issue would be wholly unknown to the law schools.albanach wrote: You have non pass-fail classes? Use the guidance on the LSAC website and calculate your LSAC GPA. LSAC doesn't care if your school issued a GPA or not. Remember fails count, passes don't.
OP, It may be worth calling the admissions offices at a couple of your target schools and asking them how they'd handle it.
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Re: Blank Gpa
Thank you! I did reach out to my local university and left a message with admissions, I am awaiting their call back as we speak. Assuming I'm treated the same as a foreign student does that mean they will mainly focus on my lsat score? From what I understand a good portion of students at TESU do graduate the way I did.
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