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- Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:20 pm
#21276
I have several things that could potentially warrant an addendum and I was wondering if someone could help me out:
1. I was a part time student for all of undergrad because I had to work. I allude to this in my personal statement but it's not clear that I was working basically full time for all of undergrad. Do schools care if you go part time?
2. I have 2 withdraw grades on my transcript of otherwise all As. I withdrew because the professors were horrible. I didn't think this was a big deal but someone in another thread suggested that an explanation of a W grade was a good idea.
3. A BIG gap in my undergraduate education-- I initially went to school for dance right out of high-school and hated it and left in the middle of my second semester (so I also have "W"s for a whole semester there as well). I tried to pursue a professional dance career for several years after that and then decided to go back to school and got a degree in philosophy. So from start to finish my undergrad took ten years. I know applications typically have a question about this, but it seems to be usually limited to 500 characters, which is not enough space to really explain all of that in any meaningful way. I've tried to write a personal statement which sort of explained this whole thing but I didn't feel like it painted me in the best light or really said what I wanted to say about why I am a good candidate for law school.
A final question: I learned recently that LSAC creates a cumulative GPA for all schools attended. For my philosophy degree my GPA was a 3.98. For my one semester at dance school my GPA was a 3.45. Are schools going to pay more attention to the cumulative GPA that weighs in the dance credits or the one from my actual degree?
Sorry, I know this is a lot of questions...
1. I was a part time student for all of undergrad because I had to work. I allude to this in my personal statement but it's not clear that I was working basically full time for all of undergrad. Do schools care if you go part time?
2. I have 2 withdraw grades on my transcript of otherwise all As. I withdrew because the professors were horrible. I didn't think this was a big deal but someone in another thread suggested that an explanation of a W grade was a good idea.
3. A BIG gap in my undergraduate education-- I initially went to school for dance right out of high-school and hated it and left in the middle of my second semester (so I also have "W"s for a whole semester there as well). I tried to pursue a professional dance career for several years after that and then decided to go back to school and got a degree in philosophy. So from start to finish my undergrad took ten years. I know applications typically have a question about this, but it seems to be usually limited to 500 characters, which is not enough space to really explain all of that in any meaningful way. I've tried to write a personal statement which sort of explained this whole thing but I didn't feel like it painted me in the best light or really said what I wanted to say about why I am a good candidate for law school.
A final question: I learned recently that LSAC creates a cumulative GPA for all schools attended. For my philosophy degree my GPA was a 3.98. For my one semester at dance school my GPA was a 3.45. Are schools going to pay more attention to the cumulative GPA that weighs in the dance credits or the one from my actual degree?
Sorry, I know this is a lot of questions...
