Question about GPA Rounding, etc.
I don't usually put my undergraduate GPA on my resume, but if I have to/its requested, I'm wondering about a few things in terms of etiquette:
A. I would prefer to simply write it as it appears on the transcript as I'm very borderline - so it reads for me: 3.699/4.333; so of course I'd like to write 3.7... But I just wrote it with all the decimals until recently when I had someone read it to me as 3.6 (which I think is a big difference!) and I had to note that it was actually about as almost a 3.7 as mathematically possible... Sort of annoying in quantitative fields that people don't understand decimals...
But I also know rounding (esp up) is STRONGLY frowned upon, which makes sense. So how can I make sure they don't read it as 3.6, but also not round it to 3.7?
B. That's my undergrad GPA, but I actually took a finance class at the same college as a post-bacc 3 years later, and it would alter the average up if I included it. But the transcript calculates it separately as it wasn't part of my degree program.
Could this be a relevant reason to round to 3.7?
Thanks for any opinions, I imagine people on here are pretty well versed at this type of question.
most people round up their GPA to a single decimal. as long as you use normal convention (anything below .05 gets rounded down, above .05 gets rounded up), I don't see any problem with that so in your case, it would be 100% normal to write down 3.7.
On the other hand, I don't think showing an "adjusted" GPA that doesn't tie to a transcript is a good move in any event.
Don't include the class from your post-bacc, you weren't an undergrad. It's not a factor in calculating your undergrad GPA. Usually GPAs are rounded to one or 2 places depending on what you prefer or what the application asks for. In this case, rounding to the nearest tenth and hundreth gives you the same thing - 3.7/3.70 so you could go with either. No one will fault you for rounding up when your transcript goes out 3 places - even if you had a 3.701 I wouldn't suggest listing your GPA exactly as your resume says.
Adding the finance course into your GPA calculations will be a bad move. You can round it up to 3.7 or as 3.70 even.
I'd personally put 3.69. Rounding up in the 10ths place is probably not ok. Rounding up in the 100ths place is fine as long as it doesn't impact the 10ths place (e.g., 3.69X to 3.7 ;) ). You don't have to listen to my advice, though.
You have a problem with math
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