DecideSomeHow said: But to infer the inverse, i.e. not high GPA means a job with a low salary is simply wrong. Too many other variables in play.
I would say: I gave you an example, what you still don’t believe it? It is the GPA as part of the equation. You may graduate from MIT, Berkeley, Call-Tech in engineering. You will still not get a call for interview if your GPA is lousy. Oh by the way, that job is good high paying job. The company of course has plenty of jobs for so-so engineering fresh graduate with so-so GPA like 3.2, etc. Are you not able to distinguish between high paying jobs or not?..high paying jobs require special treatments like high GPA, etc.
You don’t have to tell me if you are happy or not with your career pays in the last 25 years. To each-each own, but don’t forget there exist high paying jobs that will require high GPA. Nothing you can do about it as it is their policy that wants to have higher high GPA kids.
Just like Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc. They require high GPA and good credentials to be accepted to their schools. You can not blame them for any lousy GPA to be accepted into the schools. Companies also like schools they have standard and special treatment for any fresh graduate to get the high paying jobs and one of the requirements is GPA 3.70 and above. If you don’t have it even you have degrees from MIT, Cal-Tech, Berkeley, etc, and your GPA is 3.2, sorry they ignore you.