Does it matter what grades you get in college?

[Dissipate]

What I don't understand is if employers weigh different GPAs from different schools differently. For isntance, if someone gets a 4.0 GPA at a fourth tier school and someone else who is applying gets a 3.0 GPA at a school that has much higher standards, do employers take that into account?

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
For the first job, they play a bit of a role (and some places, no role at all). After the first job, they don't mean ******.

For some odd reason, some employers do want your college transcripts and GPA even though you have been out of college for years and have previous job history.

Google is one company that comes to mind that does ask for GPA.

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
What I don't understand is if employers weigh different GPAs from different schools differently. For isntance, if someone gets a 4.0 GPA at a fourth tier school and someone else who is applying gets a 3.0 GPA at a school that has much higher standards, do employers take that into account?

Yes, but not the way you might think. The company I work for will only hire professionals from major schools, like Big 10, ACC, etc. They will not hire from "lesser" schools into the professional ranks. If, and that's a big if, they hire someone from those schools, it will be for a technician role.

By the way, my company also will not accept anyone with a GPA below 3.0, unless they have more than 5 years experience.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Yes, they do. And my 2.99 is making me quite angry, and it's all because I made the stupid decision not to go to a class for a month and a half, and not drop it (the scheduling was impossible for me and my commute - I had a night class that ran to 11PM immediately before it, and this class started at 8AM, and I had a 1hr commute each way for most of that timeframe).

Just round that up to a 3.0 on your resume

Actually, you could get into a WORLD of trouble if you did that.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
What I don't understand is if employers weigh different GPAs from different schools differently. For isntance, if someone gets a 4.0 GPA at a fourth tier school and someone else who is applying gets a 3.0 GPA at a school that has much higher standards, do employers take that into account?

Sometimes it matters a lot, sometimes no. If you go to a top 25 school that might help for some jobs, but honestly it can be all over the map. It's hard to say that a 3.0 from USC or UCLA is better than a 3.9 from Ohio State.

 

[everman]

Experience >* Unless it's your first job out of college/some other professional school (law,med)

 

[aswedc]

Never mind.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: apinomus
Experience > 3.0 GPA, at least

everyone hre keeps saying this, but to get a good job to get good experience , good grades and going to a good school are pretty important

 

[Kadarin]

In my field, as long as you're intelligent, know what you're doing, and have good relevant job experience, it matters very little whether you went to college or not. I did not graduate college, and I make a base salary of ~80K, and bonuses push this up very close to $100K. We won't even talk about stock...

And we're hiring.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
In my field, as long as you're intelligent, know what you're doing, and have good relevant job experience, it matters very little whether you went to college or not. I did not graduate college, and I make a base salary of ~80K, and bonuses push this up very close to $100K. We won't even talk about stock...

And we're hiring.

So, your field of work?

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
In my field, as long as you're intelligent, know what you're doing, and have good relevant job experience, it matters very little whether you went to college or not. I did not graduate college, and I make a base salary of ~80K, and bonuses push this up very close to $100K. We won't even talk about stock...

And we're hiring.

And what might that be?

As for the OP, yeah, they do matter in your first job. It gets less as you get older, but some companies can and will request your grades.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
In my field, as long as you're intelligent, know what you're doing, and have good relevant job experience, it matters very little whether you went to college or not. I did not graduate college, and I make a base salary of ~80K, and bonuses push this up very close to $100K. We won't even talk about stock...

And we're hiring.

So, your field of work?

Network engineering, with emphasis on higher layer protocols.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
In my field, as long as you're intelligent, know what you're doing, and have good relevant job experience, it matters very little whether you went to college or not. I did not graduate college, and I make a base salary of ~80K, and bonuses push this up very close to $100K. We won't even talk about stock...

And we're hiring.

So, your field of work?

Network engineering, with emphasis on higher layer protocols.

Ironically, that's the exact field I want to get into, and I'm continually told I absolutely must have a college degree to make more than $40k.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
For the first job, they play a bit of a role (and some places, no role at all). After the first job, they don't mean ******.