BSing your GPA
This has been asked many times over, but I want to know if it has changed any with banks getting stricter or closing loopholes -
I need to raise my GPA, can I take these online/distance math courses I found at a Stanford program? It would also give me the benefit of being able to put some hard math classes on my resume. But I'm wondering if banks would call BS since it wouldn't be from my school and on my college transcript, although the courses at my school are of comparable rigor. Thanks.
If it actually counts for your GPA in school that is fine. Most classes transfer credits if you get a C or better, but not a grade so it has no effect on your overall GPA. If you try to factor getting an A in Stanford into your GPA on the Resume, but it does not factor into your school GPA that would be BS and would come up on a background check.
I've never heard about the program, is it challenging? I am going to assume it is because it's from Stanford. But when you say you go to a school with comparable rigor, I hope you don't mean some crappy state school ranked after 50th..... I would say yeah by all means go ahead, as long as you learn something. I mean it's about intelligence rather than what classes you've taken on paper, even though it might look nice, if you are dumb, then you are dumb no matter what. If you go to Harvard or something, that's comparable rigor, so I would say by all means go ahead.
Wow, you sound like a huge tool, buddy.
I go to an Ivy; I am thinking about taking math classes from the Stanford EPGY program. They have courses that are maybe 1 credit shy of the full math major at my school.
This scenario is the one that applies to me: 'If you try to factor getting an A in Stanford into your GPA on the Resume, but it does not factor into your school GPA that would be BS and would come up on a background check.'
Would submitting the Stanford math courses' transcript along with my school's transcript make it legit enough to clear the background check?
Stay classy Ivy league students, stay classy...
From someone who has looked over quite a few resumes - anytime I catch someone trying to game their GPA on their resume I toss it. You do not want to come across as unethical.
yeah, I would not do this because if you list your GPA under your current school as X.XX, it better match the transcript from your school. Trying to say, "but I got an A at this transfer class" will likely fall on deaf ears.
Good Luck, Patrick
Yeah, I thought about doing the same thing, but ultimately decided against it. Why risk it? It would be career suicide to get the offer and 2 months later get an email from HR telling you to 'come in for a chat.'
I transferred schools, and my new school gave me credit for the classes, but there are 8 freshman year A's not being counted on my gpa... sucks, but oh well.
I would not do it.
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