Why don't colleges require students to maintain the same minimum gpa they would need to get a job?
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Anonymous
| Graduating high school by the skin of one's teeth is better than not graduating at all. Said student may not have many university options, but they can still go to community college, and even many menial jobs want their employers to have at-least a high school diploma. However, the whole point of going to college is to be able to get a better job than one you could get with just a high school diploma. Most colleges require students to maintain a minimum of a 2.0, but most companies won't even consider a candidate with that low of a gpa. By allowing students with C averages to stay in their program, they are wasting said students' time. |
Anonymous
| If only the student had free will to exit or change the course of study. But the student must stay the course and graduate and get a job with one of the companies that don't care about grades. |
Anonymous
Are you the same mommy from the MoCo schools forum who wanted their darling to retake a class in which they got a C? My niece had barely above a C average in college and is working for a company in Austin. She’s doing alright for herself and not sponging off my sister. There’s more to life than grades. |
Anonymous
| Do employers actually ask for GPA? I’ve never heard of that. |
Anonymous
It’s on every résumé I’ve ever gotten. |
Anonymous
| I’ve never been asked for my GPA in my life. |
Anonymous
DP. Do you only review resumes for entry-level jobs? I cannot imagine including a gpa from when I graduated 20 years ago. |
Anonymous
I know someone who does that and find it strange. |
Anonymous
If I saw a gpa on a resume for a 40 yo, I would assume they are trying to cover for a thin resume. |
Anonymous
| My son graduated with a sub 3.0 engineering degree . It did exclude him from some jobs and definitely internships but it is not like he did not get a job. |
Anonymous
| Most companies don’t care about GPA, even for entry-level jobs. I’ve done contract recruiting for many companies so am speaking from experience. |
Anonymous
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GPA is used as screening in many online applications for recent graduate jobs. If a kid lies to get through the filter and maybe get an interview, as soon as the job asks for a final transcript, they’d be found out.
I have a summer grad in CS with a 2.98 gpa. A rough first semester combined with pandemic pass/fail on a couple of classes (too much uncertainty around how professors were grading) and a credits from AP and CC that don’t factor into GPA (even though they were As), meant he had a rough time trying to bring it back above a 3.0. Combine that with all the recent tech layoffs and he (and several friends) have been having a tough time getting any responses from anyone. |
Anonymous
| When I see GPA on a resume, I assume it’s because they lack work or internship experience. If they have real work experience it tells me they are too focused on their college past and relying on that instead of the present. GPA doesn’t mean anything in the real world and most employers don’t care about this. |
Anonymous
| What GPA do they need to get a job? The primary GPA screening tool at most universities is that many employers recruit through the online career services of the university and can select screens like "Must have GPA > 3.6." Not all employers screen GPA at all, and those that do have drastically different requirements. I remember my brother in engineering needed a 3.0 standing to keep his internship. Many of my students (I won't say what field) need a 3.6 to go to top companies but they can drop down a tier to companies that only need a 3.0-3.3. So the idea that you can apply some kind of blanket criteria to even define "a GPA that is needed for a job" makes no sense at all. |
Anonymous
It never been on any resume where I hired that person. So odd! |