Anyone know a current or recent Ivy League student with a low college GPA?

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell does your college gpa matter if you don’t plan to go to a competitive masters program? As long as you graduate you get your degree. Of it is from an Ivy than your already ahead, if you picked a major wisely. I never put my gpa on my resume and I got a job after college…

This. I did my MBA at a top ten business school. Wasn’t striving to be valedictorian and didn’t plan to continue on to a PhD program. I got serviceable grades (mostly B’s) because I was busy with a lot of stuff while I did my MBA and what did my grade point matter? Still list MBA from that business school on my CV. Have never been asked for my GPA.

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As long as kid wore Red they got a high score anyhow

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Q. You know what they call the person who graduated Harvard Medical School with the lowest GPA?

A. Doctor

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Recent? No. But I know many who have started their own businesses, and many more who have jobs that meet their needs. While it matters for most graduate programs, most careers are more concerned with job skills than with gpa once you’ve graduated.

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Anonymous wrote:You just don't put your GPA on your resume. Once you are one year into a job, it's totally irrelevant.

They will ask for your transcript.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You just don't put your GPA on your resume. Once you are one year into a job, it's totally irrelevant.

They will ask for your transcript.

+1

Many jobs require transcripts these days.

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Anonymous wrote:It happens all the time. People get so wrapped up in college admissions- sending their kids to subpar public high schools because it will be easier to stand out and get in to HYP than from a competitive private, but once they get there, they can’t keep up. Or maybe they didn’t have a choice about where they went to high school and were the smartest person at a bad school and got in that way. Their job prospects are no better than if they gone to a crap school. Just getting into an Ivy does not guarantee your future. You still have to do well.

Similar to private schools and overly invested parents who solved every problem with money.

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Bush Jr, at a graduation ceremony at his alma mater, Yale, where he was a C student,

congratulated all A students.
He Congratulated all B students.
To all the C students (2.0-2.99 gpa), he said they, too, can become president of the USA.

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Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation is rampant but kids still screw up. If you don’t have wealthy family connections, what do Ivy students at the bottom quartile of their class do career-wise? GPA in the 2.0 to 2.99 range.

Do the politics.

George Santos did it without an ivy degree.

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Ok, well, they won’t get into med school, law school, and any ranked mba program. Depending on how low we’re talking about, they may only get into the University of Phoenix for grad school. However, there are plenty of people who were lousy at school who have been successful in their life, with personality, entrepreneurship, leadership, charisma, etc. Your kid has made his bed regarding his grades, he should pivot now and be working on the other stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Bad post. 2.0.-2.99 is absurdly high range. 2.99 is a B average, which is fine. 2.0 is a C average, which is basically failing in the modern scale.

The lowest cutoff for half-decent internships and full-time jobs is 3.0. I’ve never seen a 2.50 or 2.75 GPA cutoff.

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Mine had a 2.8 and still got into a top Masters program (although he had a really good gmat and gre score). He may have gotten some grace because he had one really bad semester followed by 2 were grades were just pass/fail due to covid. Grades were solid after that, but the two p/f semesters made it really difficult to raise his gpa.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You just don't put your GPA on your resume. Once you are one year into a job, it's totally irrelevant.

This!!

It doesn’t matter at all. One must get an interview, GPA is not a requirement for that, and then blow them away with their personality. It’s very straight forward. Many companies will just hire HYP, because they are HYP - not that many ambitious HYP people aspire to be a cog in a corporate wheel, but this is what happens to them.

How old are you? Check out current Ivy students on LinkedIn. They all list their GPA, honors, dean’s list, and even SAT or ACT.

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Malcolm Gladwell studied this. The bottom group doesn't fare better than someone who went to a non-Ivy school.

Here's the kicker, he says.

The top group at Harvard and the top group at, say, Haverford will all do well because they strive and do well in their work.

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OP, most kids who have academic troubles switch majors when things get tough. The ones who have less supportive family, figure it out too late, sadly.