LSAC GPA Calculator
Law schools rebuild your transcript on their own rules. Usually it drops.
Why the two numbers differ
- Repeated course (both attempts on transcript) — LSAC counts every attempt. Most schools count only the later grade, so a retake that fixed your school GPA does not fix your LSAC GPA.
- PE, practical art, practical music or ROTC — LSAC includes these whenever credit was assigned, even at schools that leave them out of their own GPA.
- Advanced Placement credit — Reported separately as unconverted credits, never averaged in.
The three that move it most: every attempt at a repeated course counts, academic forgiveness does not apply, and PE and ROTC count even where your registrar leaves them out. All three push in the same direction, and it is usually down.
LSAC’s conversion table
LSAC publishes one table and applies it to everyone. Your school's own mapping is irrelevant here — which cuts both ways.
| LSAC points | Grade | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 4.33 | A+ | 98–100 |
| 4.00 | A | 93–97 |
| 3.67 | A− | 90–92 |
| 3.50 | AB | — |
| 3.33 | B+ | 87–89 |
| 3.00 | B | 83–86 |
| 2.67 | B− | 80–82 |
| 2.50 | BC | — |
| 2.33 | C+ | 77–79 |
| 2.00 | C | 73–76 |
| 1.67 | C− | 70–72 |
| 1.50 | CD | — |
| 1.33 | D+ | 67–69 |
| 1.00 | D | 63–66 |
| 0.67 | D− | 60–62 |
| 0.50 | DE | — |
| 0.00 | E / F | below 60 |
Three rows deserve attention. A+ is 4.33, so a school that caps A+ at a plain 4.0 — Indiana and Michigan both do — understates you relative to LSAC. AB, BC, CD and DE exist, which is how LSAC absorbs half-step systems like Wisconsin's. And E and F are the same zero, so the schools that fail students with an E rather than an F need no special handling.
Quarter hours are multiplied by .67
LSAC's wording is exact: "Trimester hours are treated as semester hours; quarter hours are multiplied by .67 to arrive at semester hours."
That is .67 — not .667, and not two-thirds. Nearly every third-party LSAC calculator uses one of the other two. On a single course it is invisible; across a 180-quarter-hour degree, .67 gives 120.6 semester hours where two-thirds gives 120.0. The gap lands in your denominator, so it moves the average rather than just the credit count.
What LSAC counts that your school does not
| Course type | LSAC | Your school | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repeated course (both attempts on transcript) | counts | excluded | LSAC counts every attempt. Most schools count only the later grade, so a retake that fixed your school GPA does not fix your LSAC GPA. |
| Academic forgiveness / renewal | counts | excluded | If the grade is still printed on the transcript, LSAC counts it — a line struck through it changes nothing. |
| PE, practical art, practical music or ROTC | counts | excluded | LSAC includes these whenever credit was assigned, even at schools that leave them out of their own GPA. |
| Taken after your first bachelor’s degree | excluded | counts | Everything after the conferral date of the first bachelor’s is excluded, including later undergraduate courses. |
| Advanced Placement credit | excluded | counts | Reported separately as unconverted credits, never averaged in. |
| Pass/Fail, Credit/No Credit, Satisfactory | excluded | excluded | Systems with one or two passing grades are unconvertible, so the credits are reported without a grade. |
| Withdraw/Fail your school treats as nonpunitive | excluded | excluded | Excluded — but only genuinely nonpunitive ones. A WF made nonpunitive by a successful retake or a forgiveness policy still counts as zero. |
The repeat rule is the one that surprises people most. LSAC's text is blunt: "All grades and credits earned for repeated courses will be included in the GPA calculation if the course units and grades appear on the transcript." A retake that repaired your transcript GPA leaves the LSAC figure untouched, because the original grade never left.
Academic forgiveness works the same way — "A line drawn through course information or a grade does not eliminate the course from GPA calculation." If the grade is still printed, it counts.
Everything after your first bachelor’s degree is excluded
LSAC stops at the conferral date of your first bachelor's degree. Graduate work, professional study, and even further undergraduate courses taken afterwards are all left out. A post-bacc year taken specifically to raise a low GPA does not raise the LSAC GPA — it appears on the report, but outside the average.
One change is coming that is worth planning around: from the 2027–2028 application cycle, college-level courses taken while in high school, including dual enrollment, will be excluded from the LSAC GPA. Applicants who front-loaded easy dual-enrollment credit will see their LSAC figure move.
Your arithmetic, step by step
Every intermediate value, including the quarter-hour conversion and which side each course lands on. Rows where the two systems disagree are highlighted.
| Course | As shown | Semester hrs | Grade | Points | Quality | LSAC | School |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLS 101 | 3 sem | 3.00 | A | 4.00 | 12.00 | counts | counts |
| ECON 210 | 4 sem | 4.00 | B+ | 3.33 | 13.32 | counts | counts |
| CHEM 110 (first attempt) | 4 sem | 4.00 | D | 1.00 | 4.00 | counts | excluded |
| CHEM 110 (retake) | 4 sem | 4.00 | B | 3.00 | 12.00 | counts | counts |
| PE 120 Swimming | 1 sem | 1.00 | A | 4.00 | 4.00 | counts | excluded |
| HIST 300 | 5 qtr | 3.35 | A− | 3.67 | 12.29 | counts | counts |
| AP Calculus credit | 4 sem | 4.00 | A | 4.00 | — | excluded | counts |
LSAC: 57.61 ÷ 19.4 = 2.98
What this page cannot tell you
LSAC resolves ambiguous transcripts by contacting the registrar, and it maintains a per-institution Interpretive Guide that decides how an unusual grade symbol at your specific school is read. This page applies the published general rules; it cannot reproduce a judgment call made about one transcript. Treat the number here as a close estimate and the CAS report as the fact.
LSAC says the same thing about its own margin: "There may be some variation between the GPAs calculated by LSAC and those calculated by colleges or students; however, the variation is rarely substantial."
Related
- GPA calculator on your own school's grading scale
- Quarter to semester credit conversion
- Weighted GPA calculator — what your high school added, before LSAC took it all back off
- What is a credit hour?
Primary sources
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. Follow the links to read the regulation yourself rather than taking this site's word for it.
Rules verified against primary sources on 2026-08-25.