How to write transfer school on resume
I transferred after my freshman year ended. I had a 3.96 gpa. My gpa gets reset at my new institution, however when I’ll be recruiting I’ll only have one semester under my belt at my new school and my class schedule will be challenging. This will most likely make my “new school gpa” sink. Is it okay for me to then combine both gpas together from both schools and say “new school cumulative gpa” or should I have two distinct sections on my resume for my old school and it’s gpa and my new school and it’s gpa. I’m transferring to Georgetown if that’s important. Also when recruiters ask for my gpa although Georgetown will say my gpa is X. That wouldn’t be factoring in my whole first year that I grinded for. Does anyone have any thoughts?
I transferred and averaged the two GPAs, then explained if asked - I just felt it was fair, given that my academic performance at my old school was 2 semesters compared to only one at my current one. However, the two GPAs were within <.05 of="" each="" other="" so="" it="" was="" less="" a="" discrepancy="" to="" even="" start="" out="" with.="" if="" you="" have="" drastic="" performance="" differences="" i="" would="" make="" sure="" clearly="" note="" mixture="" all="" your="" schools.=""></.05>
Re-arrange the class schedule so it makes it easier for you to get a good GPA. IMO now that you've transferred, nothing from the previous school really matters. It was only used till this point to transfer. I do not think that you can average old.school GPA + GU gpa to come up with a cumulative number. You can mention the GPA from your previous institution. My guess is the previous institution was not a target school or such, and therefore will be heavily discounted by recruiters and such anyways.
IMO switch around the classes, make it easier to get a higher GPA and absolutely grind. GU GPA is going to carry a lot of weight, the previous one is going to become completely irrelevant after a semester or two.
It wasn’t a complete non target it was Wake Forest which def ain’t a solid target. But if I’m recruiting then all they will see is my first semester sophomore year. Would it not make sense to average it then. Obv when I graduate it’ll be a different story. I’m taking two really hard classes this first semester bc I’m an Econ major so my GU gpa will be 3.9 at best 3.6 at worst. If I average my cum. Gpa it’ll be 3.88 at worst.
1- Wake Forest is not a target, don't play mind tricks on yourself by saying it's some what of a lower tier target school
2- You can't average it, (fwiw a 3.6 at Georgetown by no means will take you out of the running from any job IMO), and this is why it's also critical that you grind and get the best possible GPA as possible. I think you'd be in a tougher situation if this was first semester junior year. I think timing is in your favor since you transferred after frosh year. Wake Forest will become redundant very quickly. If I were in your shoes, I would almost exclusively use to the first semester at Georgetown to get settled in and in building a sound foundation. If you get a solid GPA first semester sophomore year, you can undoubtedly build momentum off of it the second semester. I don't think you'll miss out much in terms of recruiting by solely focusing on crushing the first semester.
3- Can you research more into the timelines? I think most deadlines are going to be after your first semester sophomore year anyways, at which point your GU GPA should be ready to go. Recruiting really gets critical I'd say around the second semester sophomore year mark for internships over the summer between Jr and Sr year (hopefully some current undergrads students can chime in on this).
4- Congrats on getting into Georgetown. I graduated from the Business School as well, with a degree in finance. It was an exceptional experience. You should take advantage of the resources the school has provided. GU places extremely well for finance, and as a student there, you literally just have to do what they tell you to do and you will make it. I only have good things to say about my time there, and it worked out well for all of my friends too.
Hey thanks for your reply. Unfortunately transfers can’t switch schools and I went into Georgetown College because I didn’t want to commit to the business school. I have looked at some previous posts and users said it won’t impact me too much for recruiting. I have heard that clubs are important in recruiting, is it still possible if I don’t get into a good finance club, and do you have any tips for getting into them? Also I’m an Econ major but am considering switching to political economy and not taking intermediate micro this semester but some gov class instead which would prob let me get an easy 3.8+ Would that hurt me? I worked really hard on registration a few days ago to get all the other easy profs for my other classes, but intermediate micro is intermediate micro.
Look if you go on LinkedIn, you will realize there are tons of GU grads who were not MSB working in FO roles all over Wall Street.
I don't think any of the recruiting events were limited solely to MSB students. MSB does host MSB only networking events from time to time that you will miss out on, but I think you have access to all of the OCR events that MSB students do.
Out of curiosity, why did you not want to commit to MSB?
The transfer rate into MSB is much more competitive. The rate was already 4% for normal kids and MSB had fewer spots available. I understand that either way I’m fine realistically but my transfer app just pulled much better for college. Which is still a big improvement from Wake. Realistically I tend to overthink everything so I’ll probably be fine whether I major in Econ or political economics.
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