No. Absolutely not.

Stop whining and stop trying to pull a slicky boy by manipulating information to benefit yourself. Just own up to your mistakes and stop worrying about things you can't change or don't have control over. If you put half the effort you do into trying to improve your interviewing or networking skills as you do posting your schemes, machinations, and complaints on this website, you would probably set yourself up just fine.

 
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Just delete the first institution off your resume entirely, then use the combined GPA of the two and call it your cumulative GPA. It's syntactically accurate, and you don't erase 2 years of work for having changed schools. Most school's career offices actively encourage doing it this way, and this is how it's done for any grad school application. Forget the idiot above, he's the type of sour little shit that I would regret hiring. On the other hand, no-one's going to regret hiring you for being street smart. I don't care if you present yourself in a flattering light - duh, every other bullet point on your resume is going to be more BS than your GPA. If you're actually full of shit, I'll see you crack during the interview.

As long as it's within 0.5 of your second school's GPA, no-one will blink an eye. HR looks for things like you not actually having gone to Harvard/Wharton, or you having a 2.3 GPA when you said you had a 4.0. Your hiring manager will never see your resume again after hiring or dinging you. The only person that actually pays attention to it to begin with is the analyst going through the pile. It only gives us interviewers a fun point to grill you on e.g. "Your resume says your GPA is only a 3.6. Why is it so low? What happened?" Just another thing to make you squirm. Of course, we can't say that if you have a 3.9 or 4.0, which we hate.

It's hilarious how obsessed some kids are with having "earned" their GPA in their oh so excruciatingly difficult Economics and Business degrees. Get over it, those four years of studying disappear in a blink the second you sign an offer with the first company you work for.

Source: am on the other side of the interview desk.

 
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Source: am on the other side of the interview desk.

Wow, you are on the other side of the desk?! You must really know what you are talking about! I humble myself before your greatness!

I take back what I said OP, you should listen to this guy. Not only is he on the other side of the desk, but he also appears to Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap.

Here you posted about being in a top 15 MBA trying to decide between Ibanking and RE. This was 7 months ago. http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/crossroads-tradition-or-ambition

Here you are trying to decide between undergrad at USC/UCLA 4 months ago. http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/uclausc

Here you are trying to figure out what to major in?! http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/computer-sciencebusiness-or-cogni…

Between all of your time spent studying undergrad and at a top 15 MBA program, is it hard to fit in all those other hours "on the other side of the desk"?

 

Haha, funny. I think my case is different though.

Apparently, med schools/law schools/other grad schools do this during admissions for those who went to multiple undergrads, they look at the different transcripts and average the GPAs for your "application GPA".

I was just wondering if the same concept applies to jobs though..

 

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