Unethical GPA?

HPuck35
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 17:07:17 +0000

lessonwitch2; You look at the grades in relation to the job you will be asking the applicant to do. An applied course would, for me, have less weight than the more comprehensive heat transfer class. I would want to know that you understood the whole range of the technical area where an applied class is usually focusing on one small part of the subject area.

The thing that you need to understand is that the competition for a job after you graduate is just as tough as for college admission. I worked for an aerospace company with national name recognition. After HR went thru and screened the applicants, I’d still have 10 applicants (or more) for every job I had open. There are lots of factors to consider when selecting the person to hire but grades in specific classes that apply to the job is near the top of the selection criteria.

Full time positions for June grads were usually filled in the spring so fall grades were available. Resumes may have been collected in the fall, but the actual interviews were still in the spring (or late winter at the earliest).

As far as interns went, I had far fewer internships available. My company would advertise as requiring a 3.2 GPA for such a position but HR would typically weed out those with GPAs less than 3.5 as we’d have so many applicants.