Education Background Check about GPA

chrisw
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:27:47 +0000

Agreed with notaznguy 100%. If you are worried, you should be, and you have no one to blame but yourself. Background checks are varied in their extensiveness (your local small business may run a background check to make sure you have no outstanding arrest warrants, whereas the CIA may request information from everyone you have ever met), so that may contain a check on your GPA, and it might not.

Even if they don’t check your GPA now, they may request an official transcript once you finish finals. And even if they don’t do that, there is no guarantee that they won’t check your GPA in a few months.

You have little choice but to buckle down and hope that nothing comes of it (unless you want to let the hiring manager know that, as you looked at your resume, you realized you made a mistake in your GPA listing and inform him of your ACTUAL GPA… which may work in your favor since the company did deem you worth the risk of extending an offer, after all), but you messed up on this one.