u/Ill-One5562

Hi all,

I recently tried to reach out to LSAC in a long and detailed email explaining my situation to which they replied with one very vague sentence that didn't explain anything, so I am hoping someone here may have been in my situation and can give me a better answer. I will try to explain it briefly:

I am planning to study abroad at the American University of Paris during my undergraduate degree, and I am trying to determine whether those grades would be included in my LSAC GPA. AUP is located outside the United States, but it is an American-accredited university and issues an American-style transcript with U.S.-style credits and letter grades. My home institution, George Washington University, treats study abroad coursework as transfer credit: it grants credit for approved courses, but the grades do not count toward my GW GPA. Because of AUP’s unusual status, I am unsure whether LSAC would treat the separate AUP transcript as international study-abroad coursework or as coursework from an American institution.

There are other universities that share these same circumstances as AUP. Listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_universities_and_colleges_outside_the_United_States

If anyone has studied abroad to at one of these American foreign schools please let me know how LSAC treated your transcript. I really am hoping it does count because I'm graduating a year early and don't want to narrow my academic record any further than it already is I also would like the opportunity ncrease my GPA.