When getting a job, how important are grades VS activities.

jonahrubin
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:47:54 +0000

I’m giving the OP the opportunity to infer that some jobs are more concerned with intellect than others. In accounting, it looks like the recruiting process is basically to interview all the officers of relevant student orgs assuming a reasonable GPA(3.3+), then use GPA as a screening tool to cut down the rest to a manageable group for interviewing. After that they assume you are smart enough to do staff level work and personality is what matters.

In some other majors, they are keenly interested in how intelligent you are, even at the interview, which tells me that they probably would prefer a 3.9 GPA to a 3.6 with leadership.