Check with your college’s policy for details; I strongly encourage students to get Academic Renewal done when possible. I work at a California Community College. When students do take a class they forget about or the like, I bring it to their attention and let them know how to qualify for Academic Renewal. I always consider the situation you mentioned. Years later they apply for something and it shows up.
Can you expand on what an academic renewal is? What undergrad GPA should someone have to increase their likelihood of getting a scholarship to law school? (This is assuming their LSAT score is high.)
@@stuff1784 sure thing. Look at your college’s catalog for the term Academic Renewal for their specific criteria. But I’ll give you an example of what I’ve processed for students. A student has a couple of substandard grades that are over a year old. They don’t need to repeat them. Those grades don’t serve the student or their Ed goals. As their college counselor, I fill out an Academic Renewal request and submit to the record’s office. The substandard grades don’t calculated into the overall GPA. Sometimes I can get a students over all GPA up from (example) 2.8 to 3.3. It’s like erasing bad grades. But the grade still shows, just doesn’t get calculated. As far as college GPA’s for scholarship go, these gentlemen have a scholarship calculator. Check out their site for it. It shows GPA and LSAT score needed for almost all ABA law schools. It also shows ranges, like full scholarship or half or partial. Also make sure to understand if it’s a scholarship that’s for the first semester only or if it’s ongoing. I’ve seen a law school say if you don’t stay in the top 10% every semester, you can lose your scholarship. Best of luck!
I was really surprised at how terrible this content was. I have been shopping for an LSAT tutoring service for the past week and am now scratching LSAT Demon off the very short list of remaining candidates. So, if you’re not willing to uproot your family and move them to another state, then you’re not “serious” about law school? Say two young guys who can do their LSAT tutor gig from anywhere with an internet connection? The question is from a person who is 50, remember? Maybe this person is making BANK in their current career and wants to maintain that income while they increase their qualifications, or perhaps the person has kids in high school that they don’t want to rip them away from their friends and jeopardize their high school transcripts right before college. I mean these are just the first two considerations that immediately pop into the head of someone like me with a room temperature IQ and a modicum of perspective. Paraphrasing: “Just use our scholarship estimator, it’s usually right, but it doesn’t take age into account, which is what your question is about. But that doesn’t matter. Our tool tends to give accurate predictions without considering age.” Well that’s believable since age is not a differentiating factor except for with a tiny fraction of applicants. But that doesn’t mean it is a non factor for those applicants. “My guess is age is not a thing that they are really allowed to consider.” What? Then why are you even answering the question? If I wrote to you asking, “what are the chances I’ll be accepted if I submit my application while wearing purple socks?” would you respond to that? Of course age and experience are important soft variables. How are you working in this field with no awareness of that? In all seriousness, maybe you should review the question together before recording and decide if you have any real insight to offer. And please, dude on the left, don’t get completely stoned beforehand.
It appears that neither of you have actually practiced law or spent any time in law school admissions (according to LinkedIn). Rather it appears that you’ve both been LSAT tutors for 20+ years. As the old saying goes, those who can’t do teach… and those who can’t teach scare people into paying for their LSAT prep classes and buying their books 😂
You sound super catty. 😂
Meow.
Check with your college’s policy for details; I strongly encourage students to get Academic Renewal done when possible. I work at a California Community College. When students do take a class they forget about or the like, I bring it to their attention and let them know how to qualify for Academic Renewal. I always consider the situation you mentioned. Years later they apply for something and it shows up.
Can you expand on what an academic renewal is?
What undergrad GPA should someone have to increase their likelihood of getting a scholarship to law school? (This is assuming their LSAT score is high.)
@@stuff1784 sure thing. Look at your college’s catalog for the term Academic Renewal for their specific criteria. But I’ll give you an example of what I’ve processed for students.
A student has a couple of substandard grades that are over a year old. They don’t need to repeat them. Those grades don’t serve the student or their Ed goals. As their college counselor, I fill out an Academic Renewal request and submit to the record’s office. The substandard grades don’t calculated into the overall GPA. Sometimes I can get a students over all GPA up from (example) 2.8 to 3.3.
It’s like erasing bad grades. But the grade still shows, just doesn’t get calculated.
As far as college GPA’s for scholarship go, these gentlemen have a scholarship calculator. Check out their site for it. It shows GPA and LSAT score needed for almost all ABA law schools. It also shows ranges, like full scholarship or half or partial.
Also make sure to understand if it’s a scholarship that’s for the first semester only or if it’s ongoing. I’ve seen a law school say if you don’t stay in the top 10% every semester, you can lose your scholarship.
Best of luck!
Appreciate this!
What if I got a Bachelor's degree from another country?
Sara and Brandon recorded an episode for international applicants a while back: th-cam.com/video/PPemhdEd6T0/w-d-xo.html
I was really surprised at how terrible this content was. I have been shopping for an LSAT tutoring service for the past week and am now scratching LSAT Demon off the very short list of remaining candidates.
So, if you’re not willing to uproot your family and move them to another state, then you’re not “serious” about law school? Say two young guys who can do their LSAT tutor gig from anywhere with an internet connection? The question is from a person who is 50, remember? Maybe this person is making BANK in their current career and wants to maintain that income while they increase their qualifications, or perhaps the person has kids in high school that they don’t want to rip them away from their friends and jeopardize their high school transcripts right before college. I mean these are just the first two considerations that immediately pop into the head of someone like me with a room temperature IQ and a modicum of perspective.
Paraphrasing: “Just use our scholarship estimator, it’s usually right, but it doesn’t take age into account, which is what your question is about. But that doesn’t matter. Our tool tends to give accurate predictions without considering age.”
Well that’s believable since age is not a differentiating factor except for with a tiny fraction of applicants. But that doesn’t mean it is a non factor for those applicants.
“My guess is age is not a thing that they are really allowed to consider.”
What? Then why are you even answering the question? If I wrote to you asking, “what are the chances I’ll be accepted if I submit my application while wearing purple socks?” would you respond to that? Of course age and experience are important soft variables. How are you working in this field with no awareness of that?
In all seriousness, maybe you should review the question together before recording and decide if you have any real insight to offer. And please, dude on the left, don’t get completely stoned beforehand.
It appears that neither of you have actually practiced law or spent any time in law school admissions (according to LinkedIn). Rather it appears that you’ve both been LSAT tutors for 20+ years.
As the old saying goes, those who can’t do teach… and those who can’t teach scare people into paying for their LSAT prep classes and buying their books 😂
Ew
It can happen. I’m working on political campaigns. Vote Beto Texas. I’m doing the best I can on LSAT.
Masters software engineering counts holistically.
I’m going to give this a shot. LSAT max is super comprehensive. LSAT un plugged good flash cards.
Magoosh ok, oddysee. Shooting 165.
He lost! Yippee!