Post-Offer GPA Check

Say it's your major gpa and that you thought it would be more relevant to the job. They don't care about how you did in your math course freshman year

This is a bad thing to lie about as it is easy to check, for people who are considering this kind of thing in the future.

For people who are reading this: this is the dumbest shit you can do. Don't do this when you apply for jobs.

You might get called out easily especially if they cut off around 3.5/3.6 GPA. Avoid doing it in the future.

You should have explicitly listed "Major GPA" on your resume to be clear and honest, which is why you deserve to lose a lot of sleep over this, but you don't deserve to lose the offer, assuming your school calculates a Major GPA. I don't see a willful material lie here. 70% odds you keep the offer.

Folks need to remember that a resume is a marketing document. You tell the truth, you tell only the truth, but you don't have to tell all truths that are inconvenient. If your major GPA is significantly higher than your overall GPA, list the major GPA and leave the overall GPA off. OP's plan was going fine until he left "Major" off of "Major GPA".

If I don't see a clear description of the GPA (Major or Overall), I always ask and make a note rather than assuming it's overall. It's really not a huge deal though, as long as it's not "GPA from my two Art History Classes (I'm an Engineer): 4.0"

Have you filled out a formal application and signed off for the release of background check? If not, the application may ask for your GPA, and if you lie on that, they can fire you. If you have completed all this and they haven't asked to see a transcript, you'll be fine.

But...I just went through a similar mistake, although it was actually a mistake, and I emailed the people I interviewed with explaining it (this was after the 4th-and-final rounds, likely during their deliberations.) No one gave a shit. When it comes to that stage of the process, GPAs are probably irrelevant in ranking candidates. If it's really eating you up, call one of the people you interviewed with and explain it. Actually you should probably do this anyways. You don't want this to come up and get fired for it, however extremely rare that is. Having to then approach future employers and say you got fired for a GPA discrepancy will not bode well. Also the call will free your mind, and you don't have to worry about any later repercussions. Good luck.

GPA matters less for S&T than IBD just to be fair.

droking may have an S&T bias; I certainly have an S&T bias.

My view is that to pull an offer or fire someone because they lied on a resume or application we need a few things:

1.) It has to be material. 2.) It has to be clearly untruthful. 3.) Assuming that 95% of the population is reasonably honest but sometimes puts down the wrong information by accident, it has to have a >50% chance of being deliberate.

I think the box is checked on 1- 3.4 vs 3.6 is pretty huge, but assuming it's common practice at the school to calculate major GPA box 2 is only a maybe and box 3 is a no. But I'm also a gullible quant.

You knew what you were doing man, what do you mean how to wiggle out of this lol

"Whoops"

just say "ops, i was hoping you guys wouldn't notice" HAHA

I have a friend who got his resume past HR with only putting his major gpa on his resume 3.5; interviewed and all that stuff, got an offer. He had to bring in his official transcript post grad, which had 2.8 on it.. Nobody cared. IMO, no HR person would walk to the MD who hired you and say "look this gpa is low".

All you have to say is that your career services advisor told you to put your major GPA instead of your cum GPA because it was higher and that you did not know that you needed to specify. I have not done this but it doesn't seem like anything to sweat over.

hey. wanted to know what ended up happening with your offer in this situation? thx