When my younger son was looking for internships his college GPA was 2.99999 which took a lot of them out of the running. His grades got better every year and senior year he was on the Dean’s List both semesters. He’d been a B+ to A- student in high school.
My older son was just the opposite. He was on the Dean’s List freshman year, but never again. I didn’t actually see his transcript though he was perfectly forthcoming about his grades when we remembered to ask. I’m pretty sure he got some sort of C in a physics course due (according to him) lab grades where he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t meeting expectations. In any event he did well enough in the courses that counted that he got an internship and job at Google. He’d been a stellar student in high school.