I've read on a post somewhere that your undergraduate grades AFTER your first bachelor's does not apply to law school. Is this correct? Basically I've taken some courses a few years after my bachelor's and am wondering if I need to submit those as well or does the law school only care about grades towards your first bachelor's?
You'll have to submit transcripts for every undergraduate and graduate institution you've attended, even if you've never received credit for it. Whether law schools will consider them as part of your application is another story, but LSAC requires that you submit all of them for processing and inclusion in the Law School Report they put together and submit to the law schools to which you apply.
From LSAC's website (
http://lsac.org/Applying/lsdas-requesting-transcripts.asp):
...you must have a separate transcript sent to LSAC directly from each undergraduate and graduate institution you attended in the US, its territories, or Canada.
Transcripts to include:
- community colleges
- bachelor's and graduate institutions
- law/medical/professional institutions
- institutions attended for summer or evening courses
- institutions attended even though a degree was never received
- institutions from which you took college-level courses while in high school even though they were for high school credit
- institutions that clearly sponsored your overseas study
A copy of these transcripts, along with a summarization of all undergraduate work, will be forwarded with the law school report to the law schools to which you apply.
Transcripts representing work completed after the first four-year undergraduate degree (considered graduate work by LSAC) will not be summarized, but copies will be sent with the law school report.
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