Special Episode: LSAC GPA Change

What exactly are we talking about? We're talking about two weeks ago, LSAC said they were going to change the rules by which they count or do not count the credits you may have taken in high school that are college credits, so dual enrollment credits.

They were flirting with not counting them in your GPA calculation.

The reason why that would have mattered is a lot of people took dual enrollment credits when they were fourteen, fifteen.

They didn't do so well in them, and then those were actually hurting their law school chances because it would bring down the LSAC calculation of your GPA.

They announced two weeks ago they were gonna stop doing that.

Now they've reversed course.

They say this is too big of a change, and they need to wait a year in order to actually do this change.

So the people who thought they were going to benefit from this are no longer gonna benefit from it.

The people who thought they might not benefit from it because they had good dual enrollment credits will, will kind of benefit because the rule won't be changing, and the grand majority of people who don't have many dual enrollment credits will-- nothing will happen.

Nothing.

Um, yeah.

Yeah.

So yeah, the official announcement, uh, sent out today says after, uh...

Well, I'll just read the first paragraph.

"Last month we announced that effective July twenty-eighth, LSAC would no longer include grades from college-level courses completed while a candidate was in high school, often referred to as dual enrollment in the LSAC GPA calculation.

After careful review, we have decided to [chuckles]-- After careful review..." Maybe the careful review should have taken place before the announcement, but-

I think the careful review was, was freaked out emails from-

People being-

... high applicants.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And perhaps law schools maybe? I don't know.

Uh, yeah.

Um, af-after careful review, we've decided to delay implementation of the policy until summer twenty twenty-seven, enabling candidates and law schools to adjust to the new policy.

I guess the nuance is that they probably don't wanna recalculate your GPA, so they will just calculate it when you request your CAS report, which is something you have to do if you're applying to law school.