Good GPA??

cameraphone
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 07:49:11 +0000

Typically any GPA over 3.5 is competitive. Not everyone’s going to have a 4.0, but some employers for internships will use GPA as a cutoff to reduce the stack of applicants. In other words, they’ll look straight for your GPA on your application and just throw it in the garbage if it’s not above a certain threshold. It’s unfortunate, but it does happen. It happens solely just because it takes time and money to review applicants. Which do you think is preferable to a hiring manager: review 300 applicants regardless of GPA or review a reduced stack of about 40 applicants who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher?

And no, 4.0s aren’t really all that common. For example, when I graduated undergrad only 3% of graduates graduated with a 4.0. This past December, even fewer people got the honor with twice as many graduates. Go figure. It’s relatively common maybe freshman year, but after that very few people get to keep it.