I've been focusing so much on recruiting for summer 2022 and even this summer that my grades could be better. I had a 3.7 coming into this semester, but just tanked an exam due to school being on the back burner. Anyone else like this too?
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Same. I haven’t tanked an exam yet, but I have an exam coming up for a difficult class and no idea what’s going on in the class, so prolly will do bad.
We needa keep our GPA at least to a decent level, for MBA programs or if we don’t get an IB internship and need to recruit for other industries, etc.
Kind of. I’ve been skipping some classes to focus on networking and recruiting. Haven’t watched a single lecture for one of the classes and have an exam later this week. Still doing alright overall, haven’t failed anything yet.
When I was in school, we would always tell younger kids to a) take as few credits as possible b) take easy gen eds during recruiting season. People always underestimate the amount of time it takes to send 10 emails a day and prep for 1-2 calls every night.
I also recommend dropping classes if you are legit tanking one of them and can do it again the following semester. 99% of the people that decide whether you get the internship never see your transcript, and for the HRs that do request transcripts, I've never heard of them checking for dropped classes. Going from a 3.7 to a 3.4 is way worse for recruiting than whatever imaginary punishment most students have in their head about dropping classes.
I'm doing well in most my classes, so I'll prolly stay right at 3.7 even if I tank this one. I have been abusing my school's covid P/F policy these past few semesters, so maybe one more time won't hurt too bad.......
Remember when I was going through this years ago. Hedged my bets and applied everywhere. Received almost 30 in-person interviews, and I went through the process with all of them to be safe. This was right in the middle of mid-term exams. Was ridiculously. Fortunately I landed the job I wanted, and never had to go through that same level of craziness again (once you're in, you're in, and moving around becomes much easier).
I’m struggling with this too! I feel like online school is harder and I spend more time on school work than I did in person which is making it harder to balance school and recruiting.
I honestly thought it would be easier to maintain a higher GPA with online school, while my GPA has gone up, it’s been difficult to stay on top of due dates and stuff.
Online school is harder yet the averages are higher...
Online school may higher averages but that doesn’t make it easier for everyone it’s harder for a lot of people too. For some people they can use notes/google exam answers/take them together but for myself and a lot of other people exams are zoom proctored/check if you switched tabs/analyze whether your talking etc. A lot of teachers have made tests harder in order to prevent cheating. At school, professors believe students have more free time so there has been an excessive amount of busy work and smaller assignments which end up taking a lot of time. Many schools have pass/fail grading during covid, mine does not. There a lot of kids who will use substitute B+ or A- with pass grades to prevent their gpa from dropping even though these aren’t really bad grades. There’s also no breaks this semester for a lot of people spring break doesn’t exist so we have 15 straight weeks of school. The random wellness day we get once a month in the middle of the week don’t do anything and people use them to catch up on homework and studying. Its also incredibly difficult to pay attention on zoom especially when you’re on it 5+ hours a day every single day.
I'm not at school, but yes, definitely, I would have a way higher GPA if not for recruiting.
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