My Fellow College Students with Low GPA's

[borealiss]

Job/Intern experience is much more important than GPA's. I don't even list my GPA on my resume anymore (3.0) because once I do that's all the recruiters will see. I just list exactly what I've done and the experience that I have. If GPA is important to a recruiter, than they'll ask for it. With this same resume I've gotten interviews with IBM, Microsoft, AMD, and more. Keep going to job fairs, be persistent, and know the crap you learned in college. GPA's are reflective of how well you did on tests, nothing more. I'm a horrible test taker, but I know my stuff and it shows in the real world, and that's what counts in the end.

 

[borealiss]

Originally posted by: Kwan1
bah.. i have a 3.89 finishing up my junior year and have yet to land a internship. so don;t assume just cause people have good grades they get everything handed to them. I have send out 10+ resumes with no luck and some of them were unpaid.

i had literally sent out 100+ resumes before i figured out it's who you know in any industry.

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: borealiss

Originally posted by: Kwan1
bah.. i have a 3.89 finishing up my junior year and have yet to land a internship. so don;t assume just cause people have good grades they get everything handed to them. I have send out 10+ resumes with no luck and some of them were unpaid.

i had literally sent out 100+ resumes before i figured out it's who you know in any industry.

that is true to an extent, but from my personal experience, I haven't to use any personal connections and had 5 interviews for internships last year (freshman year) and this year so far i've had 2 with probably 5 more coming

 

[RollWave]

as far as harvard inflating grades, its true. So many people were going from my school to Harvard to take classes in the summer because they were SO MUCH easier than ours. Thats when my university said it will no longer accept harvard credit.