why is this system so unfair?

techboid
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:57:57 +0000

^^I love this statement. It’s always from people who have crappy GPAs.

My friend who graduated 2 months ago and I would always have arguments about GPA. He would always say “GPA doesn’t matter, only connections” and I would say “GPA is not the only factor, but it seperates you from other applicants.”

Currently he is working as an “Account Executive” aka a Salesmen *****.

If your GPA is low I’m guessing you could’ve gotten a more enlightening internship with a better GPA.

EDIT: Your second most recent post was saying how you got two Cs in intro classes. So, you must fall into the category of people who say GPA doesn’t matter because there GPA is bad?

I’ve never seen ANY internship in ANY field that would look good on a resume that didn’t ask for or require a certain GPA. Sure there were “internships” that were at terrible companies running coffee orders that didn’t ask for GPAs though.



You’re clueless. My current internship is at a 9,000 person federal contracting IT company making $18/hr doing business enterprise development as sophmore in college. My gpa is about 2.8 which is a nonissue since my gpa NEVER came up in any of my interviews, which included companies such as L3 Communications, Microstrategy, and Mantech. Like i said its gonna be different for other majors but if your in a nontechnical field like business adminstration or something gpa is gonna matter a lot more than say computer science or EE.