So i have a phone interview set up with a director next week and i have this monkey on my back that i need to get rid of. An alumni has helped me get this interview but i feel like i am lying by saying that i have a 3.0 GPA on my resume. I would technically have a 3.0 if i didn't overload and take an extra class. My question here is should i notify my alum about this current situation. I have a 2.9 and feel like i am misrepresenting myself and i don't want to cause the firm any trouble going forward in the future. So my ultimate question here to you guys is should I notify my alumni? and tell him?
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The thing is, you have already lied and the resume is in the door. Don't bring it up unless it is brought up now. If you do, you make yourself look bad and your alumni contact look bad. If, during the conversation, your grades are brought into play and the director asks you why they are low 3.0, just be honest and say "when I wrote this resume I had a 3.0, but wanted to learn more about this one extra course and that has brought it down to 2.9". This way he knows you are honest and have integrity. But the key point here is to NOT bring it up unless asked. :)
so you explain why 3.0 by saying no its really a 2.9?
Just roll with it. A 2.9 is close enough to a 3.0 that no one will care. What is the upside to telling the truth. Your GPA is even worse so that will just bring light to something you need to explain and move on from, you will be outed as a liar if you bring it up (a bad one because lying about something which isn't really helping you is twice as bad).
I might just cancel the interview....
Check out this page for some GPA rounding help: http://www.bankonbanking.com/2009/09/20/rounding-your-gpa-and-other-gpa…
In short - don't worry about it. If they cared that much about your GPA, you wouldn't have gotten 1 that much quick with a 3.01, instead of a 2.96. The difference is very little and it will not be a big influence one way or the other. If you went from a 2.4 to a 3.0, it'd be a different story. A 2.9 to a 3.0 is alright. Rock the interview, shake this GPA crap, and get your confidence and spirits up.
is it a bulge bracket? top tier? if not "yes" to both, they will never find out.
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