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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought I’d add to this discussion. If you have no intentions of immediately going to graduate school, and are just applying to jobs (including ones that pay well right out of undergrad), the following aspects of a student play no part in hiring at my employer:

-How many majors, minors & certificates a student has; one major is enough
-Students’ grades in specific classes
-Whether the student’s GPA is a 3.4 vs 3.7 vs 3.95
-How long the student took to graduate from college 
-How many colleges the student attended
-How many online classes the student took

That is in no way an exhaustive list.

At my employer, campus hires & people applying fresh out of undergrad, a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to get your resumé read by a human, regardless of which school you attended. Our online application asks for it. We do request all transcripts and verify that the GPA listed is correct once we’ve gotten down to a smaller candidate pool.

Also, campus hires & new grads must have graduated from a regionally accredited, non-profit college. [/quote]
I think your list depends on the employer.

There are companies that do look at GPA (not just a minimum 3.0), majors and minors, and certificates, [b]particularly in the STEM fields.[/b][/quote]

Tech companies do skills testing for technical roles. [/quote]
Yes, but some also look at GPAs and where you went to school.

I worked for a MAANG.[/quote]

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