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afruff23 · 04-11-2008, 10:50 AM

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Depends on the job. For engineering jobs straight out of college, a low GPA is good (not too low to show that you're incompetent). The reason for this is you won't feel overqualified and thus stay at the job longer than if you had a 3.7 GPA.

04-11-2008, 10:50 AM	#33
afruff23 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,475	@student14x Depends on the job. For engineering jobs straight out of college, a low GPA is good (not too low to show that you're incompetent). The reason for this is you won't feel overqualified and thus stay at the job longer than if you had a 3.7 GPA.