Experienced professionals (5+yrs) -- when did your college GPA stop mattering for career opportunities?

Just curious to hear depending on the area of finance you are in. I'm in LO AM, I went to a target school and graduated before Covid with a 3.3 GPA.

The low GPA thing was a HUGE explainer when gunning for internships back in the day. It was a factor for my first job, but thankfully landed the job anyway (which I was very lucky to get). After that job I took it off my resume. Many a year later (I'll just say I'm 28-33 for anonymity), I'm now at a Principal level position at a good firm where my GPA does not matter one whit. Even for this job when interviewing, no one asked me what my GPA was. I've also got my CFA

Regardless, it is a relief to know my relatively low college GPA will never hold me back again. It is in many ways a useless measure after a certain point in your life (though I can understand why fresh out of college it does matter for firms). Curious how the experience has been for the rest of you all

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Once you get good work experience, GPA doesn't matter until you apply to grad schools. But, if you have superior experience, grad schools will notice and admit you, but that begs the question - should you even go to grad school? If not, then GPA doesn't really matter. 

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Yeah that's a good point, it would have mattered for grad schools. Thankfully avoided that one

Increasingly seems like opp cost of grad school is not worth it for most. If you make $250k (for argument's sake) that's ~200k post tax for 2yrs of foregone income plus ~250k 2yr MBA cost at M7. You're talking nearly ~500k of foregone income & future compounding. Anyway that's a diff argument

 

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