Cumulative gpa

[janedoe]

LSAC won't take any of that into account, even if they were transcribed on your transcript as letter grades, because most likely the transcript will show the original source of the grade. I've read a lot of the threads from back in the day when it seemed to be possible; ideally transcribed without the transfer source making it seem as if they were earned though the college via normal courses and letter grades, but unless I'm mistaken it doesn't happen anymore.

Like sanantone said, CC would be the cheapest option to take classes and earn letter grades. The time and costs of attaining all those new credits..well that's a personal prerogative depending on your plans and ambitions. I've also recently been going back and forth trying to decide whether to take more classes rather then 'test out' for the sake of raising my poor GPA and also have a stronger Grad school application. I'm inclined to take a few more classes related to my major just to make a better impression on Graduate schools, however on the GPA side, I've found that once the damage is done, it will not be worth the time and money for a bump of .3 or .4 points to go back and take another 1 or 2 years worth of credit hours at CC level (The semester system vs quarters also is a setback, however Winter/Summer sessions could possibly make up for that).

LSAC is pretty tough with their requirements and standards. But thankfully a bigger component of your application is going to be your LSAT score. I've always heard a great score can make up for a poor/mediocre GPA, but not the other way around.

Thats very true, i can see where your coming from (very good words of wisdom). It seems as if your fate is drawn out for you once you get that first grade, sadly. My main interest in doing this is primarily just to show that i was taking classes at 1 of the big 3, which will show a letter grade for either DSST,CLEP, or any other form that i could find, because they would still count that being that they are a institution, if that makes any sense. In theory, my goal would be to take all the easy ones just to show up as a grade in the big 3, which will serve as as a LSAC gpa boost, even though those credits weren't used for my degree, yet used before i applied for graduation at my home state institution.