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!
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.
what about if i put it as : 4.3/4.3 ?
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
What high school do you go to? Agree with is-t on the OCR put your real GPA and everything else list 4.0. A lot of top colleges have rampant grade inflation so keep that in mind too.
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.
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.
I am in the same situation... would it be okay to just put 4.0/4.0 seeing as a lot of applications have a 4.0 limit Also, does it make me look like too much of a nerd to have a college GPA >4.0( go grade inflation!)
Sometimes, I want to fail my gym class to bump my gpa down a little
fucking 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.
4.3 = 4.0
..Except, its just, weird.
4.0 system FTW.
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i mean it's alot easier to get good grades at a target(-cornell) seeing as they all have grade inflation... with that said, I think I'm going to drop my GPA down to the 4.0 flat
same here, gpa is higher than 4.0 i am from a target though, and i wonder if putting my real gpa will only hurt.
This thread is hilarious.
as sad as this thread is this is actually a concern for me... I don't want interviewers to think I'm a calculator just because I have a high gpa due to grade infation
I dont know the last time good grades hurt you, unless you are a human calculator and sit in your room playing World of Warcraft when not studying.
I've just never had an interview where I havn't been asked why my GPA was over a 4.0 and everytime I have to awkwardly explain the grading system
You 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.
Doesn't Ross use the 4.3 gpa scale?
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?
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.
Then there's MIT... 5.0 scale (apparently because they think their B kid is as good as other schools' A/A+ kid). :/
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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