Bachelors Degree Planning Guidance

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I've mentioned this other times but you'll have to treat law school applications a bit differently than the standard advice here of trying to get as many alt-credits as you can because law school is different than most graduate schools. For law school applications you're gonna need a bare minimum of 60 graded credits from RA institutions in order for LSAC (the law school application system) to report your cumulative GPA to schools.

What this means is that if you want to be accepted to any selective law school, you're gonna have to make sure your GPA is reported. Law schools do accept students without a GPA, however they are a tiny minority of outliers and they normally are international students without a 4.0 GPA scale system in their countries. And these students even if they are accepted to good programs are not eligible or recommended for many scholarships that are based on GPA (the other big thing is LSAT score which can qualify you for competitive scholarships, but you'd be precluded from numerous others without a GPA). 

I would recommend taking only 60 alt credits from Sophia/Study.com/other resources before you transfer to an institution like TAMUC or UMPI which gives out RA graded credits. Don't do WGU as their model is a pass/fail system and likewise wouldn't report to LSAC, unless if you were to do your first 60 graded credits at an RA institution (such as a community college or UMPI) and then transfer over.

GPA+LSAT are the two most important things for a law school applicant, far outstripping very other factor, and scholarship offers are also based on those two factors, so take those the most seriously. To this end I'd recommend either UMPI or TAMUC which would fit your purposes and budget the best.

This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much