I just got some interviews set up and I'm interested in hearing some opinions from the board. Essentially I have severely damaged my GPA due to some health issues in the past. It is now low enough I don't even qualify for my schools ocr process. Anyway, I managed to get two interviews lined up after a lot of networking. Yet now I don't know what to say if I am asked about my grades. I definitely don't want to sound like I am trying to get sympathy from my interviewer because I'm a cancer survivor. I also want to avoid coming across as lazy or making excuses for my grades. My resume looks quite bad right now so I really want to handle this properly. I literally have no other internships or experience so it looks like I haven't been very busy since I started school. I know several people who also got asked to interview for the same listing and frankly their resumes are great. Would I be best off not saying anything at all?
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I read your post, and like the interviewer will probably ask - "so, prove to me your not lazy / dumb, because I don't get that from your resume".
If you had to miss a lot of school due to illness that's understandable. If it prevented you from having internships / experience, understandable too. But if this interviewer WANTED to hire you, you aren't giving them any ammunition.
So I hope you have some great HS GPA, SAT, extra-curriculars... or started a company or a website or did something exciting that you can talk to. Hopefully your health issues are behind you and you can tell the interviewer how your GPA is improving and you are now on the right track.
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