Is it good idea to put your GPA on your resume if it isn’t the greatest? My concentration GPA which was Finance is an A- (10.12) but my overal GPA is only a B (8.30) since I did shitty in classes that I didnt’ care about and I didn’t try as much as I should have in 1st/2nd year. My 3rd and 4th year marks are all great. Also, it’s really messed up the way they calculate the GPA at my school. It works like this: 12.0 = A+ 11.0 = A 10.0 = A- 9.0 = B+ 8.0 = B 7.0 = B- etc… The problem is 8.3/12 = .69 which is not a ‘B’ so how do I put this on my resume since this is a not a formal GPA system. Should I just put GPA ‘B’? or something like that? Do you think employers will give me slighly more respect for passing level 1 or will they throw my resume in the trash when they look at my overal GPA? Sorry for all the questions I just want to give myself the best chance at landing an interview
I would not place your GPA on your resume. Just put the name of the school and your degree/major next to it. My 2.
It is stupid to put your GPA on your resume. Whenever I see this I immediately think they are lame.
What if you graduated magna or suma? Should you indicate something like: Bachelor of Arts, Suma Cum Laude Is that less lame than a GPA? Would tilt you toward including a high GPA if you were from a lower-stature school?
Sounds good, I won’t be putting in on my resume. Thanks for the input.
Count A’s as 4 and B’s as 3. Take an average. Pretty lame to have on your resume. . . especially if you have a couple years of experience under your belt.
If you were Suma Cum, You could put that. But do not put the actual GPA. M 2
really? When are you supposed to take GPA off of you rez then? Only for getting a job out of college? I have seen resumes with godamn SAT scores on them!
(10.12 / 12 ) * 4 = 3.37 I have heard to take off anything below 3.5. I would take it off. Edit : Your school’s GPA is really confusing anyway . . . I’m not sure if that above calculation is even right, maybe should just take it off either way.
I still have my GPA on my resume and plan to keep it there through business school. For me, it’s value-add enough that I would have no reason to remove it (though reluctantly, I’d probably eventually take off my SAT scores). I went to a school that had a standard 4.0 grading system. If yours had a different system, you might want to just call your undergraduate office and ask how they would convert it. I’m sure this is a very common question.
If you’re applying for jobs right out of school you should list your GPA. From what I’ve seen, fresh under grads that didn’t list their GPA did so because it was less than a 3.2 or 3.0. To the original OP, just divide your school’s “GPA” by 3 to get a generic GPA. I hate the +/- system.
With experience its lame but if you are coming out of school put it on there if it’s good. So in your case don’t put it on there.
If your GPA is out of 12 put it out of 12. i.e. CGPA: 8.3/12. People do split their GPAs into cumulative and majors, so you could put “CGPA: 8.3/12 Major: 10.2/12”. People reading your resume will be able to figure out your 8.3/12 and what it means. They do have access to the internet and the 12 point system is used by schools other than yours. The cross multiplication method someone else suggested of converting grading systems does not work, so do not use it. You will have to convert every letter grade to the 4 scale, add, and then divide to get your proper GPA out of 4. You don’t need to do this though because your resume will not be the first resume to use a 12 point grading system. If your GPA is above a ‘B’ or above put it on your resume.
What country are you in?
I would put B = 0 and A = 1 
… Just kidding … From my days teaching at UC, I remember we “were not allowed to give C’s” … pulls down the average for the department, and then the stats didn’t look good at the Dean’s office. Seriously, pretty much everyone knows that GPAs don’t mean anything anymore.
I think the big problem is that your school allowed A+ grades. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a college doing this. So if you’re on the 5th step below 100%, then that’s lower than a B average, really. It seems to me that you’re GPA, fairly stated, would be only 2.767 (a B-). I suppose you could tinker with it to count A+'s as A’s, and then divide by 3. Assuming you had no A+ grades, then you’d be only 4 steps below 100%, which would be a high B. Really, even with that, though, it’s not very impressive. And if you leave it off of your resume, you can always just say in an interview that you did so not because it was poor, but because you couldn’t translate it to something employers would actually understand. Maybe say that you thought it worked out to be about a B+ or so. If you can pass the blame for a poor number on to someone else (with good cause, not so you’re just blaming your professors for taking away the curve), I think that’s your best bet.
Florida_Gator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What country are you in? Canada. I think the best thing for me will be to leave it off my resume as some of you suggested. I always believed taht I was a B student and never had the drive to get As in school until I started learning about Finance and capital markets. I really found my calling and started doing really well in school after taht. Hopefully employers will take that into consideration.
just put GPA: 8.3 and let them think you’re over twice as smart as a 4.0 student. then you just let teh interviews pour in
UndergradCFA Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the big problem is that your school > allowed A+ grades. I don’t think I’ve ever heard > of a college doing this. > > So if you’re on the 5th step below 100%, then > that’s lower than a B average, really. It seems > to me that you’re GPA, fairly stated, would be > only 2.767 (a B-). > > I suppose you could tinker with it to count A+'s > as A’s, and then divide by 3. Assuming you had no > A+ grades, then you’d be only 4 steps below 100%, > which would be a high B. > > Really, even with that, though, it’s not very > impressive. And if you leave it off of your > resume, you can always just say in an interview > that you did so not because it was poor, but > because you couldn’t translate it to something > employers would actually understand. Maybe say > that you thought it worked out to be about a B+ or > so. > > If you can pass the blame for a poor number on to > someone else (with good cause, not so you’re just > blaming your professors for taking away the > curve), I think that’s your best bet. Agreed. My school grades 0-12 and a 12 was an A, 11 was a A-, etc. There was no A+ and multiple departments were mandated to maintain a C average. Made it hard when compared to schools with rampant grade inflation.
Under 25… put it on. Shows you’re honest and not afraid to admit you didn’t perform as well as you now hoped. I have the exact same record with the 1st and 2nd year being garbage but a pick up in later years. You can kinda cheat and put Finance Average: A- as its all they really care about anyway. Thats what I did but I lumped all my BBA classes together. Your resume out of school should be created to spark conversation. the more comfortable your future boss is asking you questions and the more there is to talk about, the better the connection. if its with HR, it may not matter but I’d assume it mostly goes the same way. my WLU career services peeps said to put it on and it seemed to work well for me.