Hi all, I go to penn, and am doing a finance concentration. My cumulative gpa is decent, but not a stellar as I would like. Doing a finance concentration means that one takes 6 finance courses, 2 intro and 4 upper level. In my two intro courses, I have a 4.0 average. I wanted to know if it is all right to add a line on my resume saying finance concentration gpa 4.0. The difference between this thread and the ones i could have searched for is that i'm not doing a major, i'm doing a concentration and my 6 classes are much less than the 13 that majors often have to do.
If i could get some opinions on this I'd appreciate it. I'm currently of the mindset of , if my major/concentration gpa is significantly above my cumulative, might as well list it, "couldn't hurt"
Thanks
Go for it. Just be sure to label it appropriately. Also, I would still put your cumulative on your resume because you've only take 2 courses in your concentration.
Agreed^^
depending how weak it is -- i put my 'concentration' even though i had a major and whatnot.. which was a focus on the financial economics related course i took, finance courses and accounting etc that i thought were applicable as to what i had wanted to do.. and yes this is GPA engineering a bit but you can explain this in your interviews if they ask about it
Yes I did a similar "concentration GPA" and it was effective.
Major/Concentration GPA and Credit Hours (Originally Posted: 09/01/2009)
Hi,
How many credit hours are required before you can put a major/concentration GPA on your resume? (For example if you take one class in accounting and get an A, it would probably be misleading to write Accounting GPA: 4.0.)
8 Credits? 16 Credits?
In my case, I have 8 credits in accounting from one school (2 grades, both A's) from which I've transferred, and 12 from my new school (GPA 3.5). Unfortunately I can't combine the grades from the two schools, which would probably give a better overall picture of my grades in accounting (20 credits). Would it be dishonest to write Accounting GPA: 4.0 under my old school (which represents only 8 credits)?
Furthermore, on the question of symmetry, is it OK to show a specific major/concentration GPA for one school and not the other? Would this raise questions?
Thanks
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