4.3 GPA,? how to put it on a a resume?

Hey everyone,

So i'm an engineering undergrad and I just finished up some nondegree/premba grad business courses, and according to my unofficial transcript, I have a 4.3 Cumulative GPA (A+)

If i put 4.3 on my resume for these courses, will recruiters/MDs/VPs think I made a typo or that i'm an idiot?

I didn't even know you could get a 4.3 (wtf right?) BTW the school is a top 30 public business school

Any help is appreciated!

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Coming from another undergrad, I would just put it as a 4.0. Most schools don't have an A+ GPA rating, and instead combine A/A+ into 4.0. This skews the weights slightly--at a university that has the 4.3 scale a kid who gets all A+/A/A- could still get a 4.0, while at a school that doesn't have the scale, the same kid would get 3.7-4.0.

This isn't a problem because you have straight A+'s, but I'd still just put it as 4.0.

 
idragmazdawhat about if i put it as : 4.3/4.3 ?
I know you said your school is strong, but I would personally wonder about the caliber of the education if I saw a 4.3, not saying that it was impossible for you to get straight A+'s but that they have a radically different standard than other prestigious colleges and universities.

Now, I'm just another undergrad, but I remember when applying to college, my friends in public schools with 4.0+'s were all told to just put 4.0, since it's the national standard. Imo you might as well just put 4.0/4.0...it's not like that sucks, and you can always tell them more in the interview.

 
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idragmazdawhat about if i put it as : 4.3/4.3 ?
I know you said your school is strong, but I would personally wonder about the caliber of the education if I saw a 4.3, not saying that it was impossible for you to get straight A+'s but that they have a radically different standard than other prestigious colleges and universities.

Now, I'm just another undergrad, but I remember when applying to college, my friends in public schools with 4.0+'s were all told to just put 4.0, since it's the national standard. Imo you might as well just put 4.0/4.0...it's not like that sucks, and you can always tell them more in the interview.

Agreed. I think the Valedictorian at my school doesn't even graduate with 4.0

 

actually quite a few 'top' colleges have 4.3 scale (cornell, columbia come to mind). if you are doing OCR, then i would put the actual GPA (because ppl doing the resume review will most likely be from your school and thus know what's up). if not, scale it down

 

people with A+ averages don't have to ask retarded questions on a message board. How is that even possible to have an A+ average.

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trade4sizepeople with A+ averages don't have to ask retarded questions on a message board. How is that even possible to have an A+ average.

I don't know, i scored 95+ on every exam and my transcript says so.

When I saw "4.3" I was just as confused so thats why I asked the question on this board. I guess I should have just kept it to myself considering the type of comments I've received.

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trade4sizepeople with A+ averages don't have to ask retarded questions on a message board. How is that even possible to have an A+ average.

I don't know, i scored 95+ on every exam and my transcript says so.

When I saw "4.3" I was just as confused so thats why I asked the question on this board. I guess I should have just kept it to myself considering the type of comments I've received.

Nah dude, I had the same question when I was going through recruitment. Just put the 4.0/4.0 on there. You are not going to be turned down for interviews because you have a 4.0 and not a 4.3. A 4.3 will just cause interviewers to make snarky comments.

 
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New Yorkerfucking community colleges /state schools and their grade inflation. why does everyone on this message board who comes from a non-target have a 4.0 average?

I normally don't do this but hey asshat, these are graduate mba courses (at a respected public school in the northeast) that i've taken for my own personal knowledge gain while working fulltime as an engineer. (I already graduated with a bachelors a year ago)

I'm sure if I decided to go to a target undergrad years ago I could cut it just as much as you.

The holierthanthou attitude on this board is sometimes disgusting.

I'm sorry that i didnt know about Ibanking when i was 12 years old and my parents didn't come from ridiculous wealth.

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Jerome MarrowYou guys realize he is trolling you hard, right?

Umm no i'm actually not trolling. I've been visiting this forum for quite some time, and I just wanted some advice.

And like someone mentioned above, the 4.3 grading system happens to be used at quite a few universities.

But anyway, if a moderator could lock this thread that would be great, this shit went downhill fast. Thanks to the people who gave useful advice, I will just put "4.0" on my resume.BTW this wasn't for a my whole career as an undergrad, it was merely for two graduate courses I took this past semester at night after work.

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If the 5.0-scale schools can put whatever/5.0, then by the same reasoning a 4.3/4.3 should be okay, right?

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It's funny because the Ivies are notorious for grade-inflation. Professors too busy with their own crap giving out A's in order to appease their over-privileged/whiny undergrads.

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The corollary to the 4.3 A+ is a 3.7 A-. When I'm calculating my GPA should I include an A- as a 4 or 3.7?

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