I am about to begin my junior year for my undergraduate and am currently double majoring in psychology and history with a minor in english. While at first I thought i wanted to get my Ph.D in psychology I have changed my mind and went back wanting to go to law school as I had pretty much my whole life. I got accepted to go to study in Ireland this upcoming fall but now that I'm thinking of law school I was wondering if it would be better to go ahead and still go to Ireland or stay to boost up my GPA (3.2 if I stayed I could get it up to at least a 3.6)? The grades won't transfer for credit to my GPA. I took a practice lsat and got a 169 on the first one I took ( it was a Kaplan test I don't know if that really means anything or not). So any advice would be helpful since the deadline to send in my housing materials for Ireland is rapidly approaching.

Your GPA is a little low so wanting to increase it prior to your application to LS is a good idea. The only problem I see is that usually when you study abroad, the credit transfers but not the grades....

So, I would check into that b4 you book the classes and trip.

Yeah they don't transfer the grades they will just show up as either a pass or fail with no credit to my GPA

thats exactly what happened to me. I studied at McGill Univ in Montreal and only the credits transfered and not the grades.

your LSAT is strong, but the applicant pool at T-15 schools is very strong b/c everyone is learning strategies on how to beat the LSAT.

So, to get into a better school and effectively complete with other applications is stellar GPA/LSAT and soft factors, I would build up your GPA first to applying.

Where are you applying to? WHere is you UG degree from?

I'm at a small private liberal arts Methodist college in Montgomery, AL. Right now I'm looking at two local schools in Alabama as last resorts because I'm really against taking a year off between undergraduate and graduate schools. I'm mostly looking at schools up North like in Pennsylvania and Ohio and D.C. I think my lsat will actually improve if I take a course to help my prepare for it because that is only the first I took.

I think the exception is if the foreign program is part of the US school.
Tulane Univ transfers grades from its foreign programs.