Honest mistake, wrong GPA on Resume. Please help!!
I have 1 course I got a D+ or worse in and I decided to retake the class to learn last semester and my friend told me that he has retaken a class before to learn and that it would be not count.
I was careless in failing to research enough to learn that for classes D+ or lower, there will still be no credit awarded, but the grades would still be somehow factored into GPA even without the credit in something called "Honors Points", so the C grade I got while not trying hard was factored into my grade.
I keep an Excel sheet of my GPA calculations so I did not factor in the C I got retaking the class because I didn't know it factored into the GPA.
Without factoring in the retake GPA, my spreadsheet showed 3.2968 GPA so I listed my GPA as 3.3 in my applications and I have recruited on that for the past 3 months, but when I went to get my transcript when one of the companies asked, it showed 3.2421 GPA with the GPA of the "C" of the repeated course counted. Even if I wanted to round to the tenth, I would be 0.008 GPA off from 3.25 so it's just a flat out lie.
The highest minimum GPA that companies I am talking to require is 3.2 GPA so I am not crossing any lines there, but I am devastated right now thinking that I could have messed up all the companies I applied for with this stupid mistake.
Some of the companies are still in interview phases so there is still time for those. How would you recommend that I tell them? Should I just start that with the interviews or should I contact the HR department now to replace my application on their file? What should I do for the companies that I already have offer from? Should I wait to see if they bring it up and then tell them my explanation? Do you think companies will rescind their offer because of this?
Please let me know anything, I really don't know what I should do.
This is pathetic, you should scratch another .05 off your resume GPA for writing this post.
No one's going to care about what is essentially a rounding error. Don't worry about it.
Honest GPA typo on a resume sent out for buyside opp. What to do? (Originally Posted: 09/17/2017)
Hi,
I am a 3rd year IB analyst currently at the last round of interview for a major sovereign wealth fund. Was going through my computer files and just realized that the resume sent out to them weeks ago had 3.5 instead of 3.4(my undergrad gpa). This was truly an honest mistake by typo.
Should I tell them, and at which point should I tell them?
Bumppp
Cum id inventore architecto ipsa deserunt alias. Unde omnis enim est id reprehenderit.
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