I noticed the M&I resume guide advises against using Senior (Soph, Jr., etc) unless you have a special circumstance.
Well long story short (blah blah blah) I finally got my ass working senior year and got a 3.96/4 and Deans Honor List. My overall GPA is 3.38 and my major gpa is 3.7. I really want to put 3.96 and say Senior Year GPA. I also took the hardest classes my senior year, so it wasn't so filler bullshit. What do you all think?
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Resist the temptation to do this as most will see this as a flag that the rest of your prior semester GPA's are worse than they really are. 3.4 isn't great but there is definitely worse.
"I stopped being a bum" is not a special circumstance
"My dad killed my mom in a murder-suicide" counts as a special circumstance
You could always add as a specual circumstance "My balls finally dropped"
People are getting more and more creative these days....
I received 2 A's first semester sophomore year, 1 A second semester, and 2 more A's first semester junior year. Is it OK to filter the rest out and put down on my resume as 4.0 GPA??
just round it up to 4.0 and called it "rounded GPA" on your resume.
hahhaha bankers
put Dean's honor list and Senior year GPA cutoff for that immediately under your actual/major GPA then come up with a better way to explain your improvement (story like any other, ideally experience --> motivation --> tough classes + high grades)
Thanks. Not looking for excuses, just a good way to market myself. SB for you.
This is kind of an off shoot of this, but what if you have a ok GPA in UG and then you go to grad school and have a much better gpa. Can you just list grad school gpa?
Just call it Pro Forma Adjusted GPA. Bankers do it all the time.
HAHA i was just about to say this holy shit lol
I talked with an investment banker and he said most people won't care if you admit you goofed off for a few years but then got serious for the last year in your undergrad.
If it's a guy interviewing him, tell him you were too busy chasing pussy and getting drunk for your earlier years; chances are, he was in your shoes at one point too.
Listing Senior Year GPA (Originally Posted: 04/25/2014)
Graduated from undergrad with a cumulative GPA of 3.1 but had a senior year GPA of 3.5...
Curious to hear if and how you guys would list that on a resume? Would listing it as - GPA: 3.5* - be okay, or is that too deceiving once you explain it in the interview?
Thanks in advance!
My senior year GPA was a 3.5, my overall was a 2.9. Do you think it would be fair for me to put a 3.5*? No. Don't even think about it.
Yeah, it seemed a bit of a reach to me, too. How would you list it? I am trying to get some advice.
Senior GPA: 3.5 - ????
If yes to above, should I list Cumulative GPA: 3.1 right next to it?
You can't pick and choose buddy - best to just be honest about it.
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