<p>Sorry, but I lied about my GPA. I current have a nearly 3.0 GPA, but on my resume I write 3.2 which is the minimum for that company. </p>
<p>After they told me they decide to give me an offer, they need me to complete a employment form for background check. I am worried if they will know my GPA from my university. I have search some information online, and they said GPA is confidential. This is one thing I want to make sure. But in the form, it doesn't ask anything about GPA, and the employer never ask about it.</p>
<p>You know this is final week, I can't focus on studying because I'm worried about the form. HR said I can finish it within two weeks. If I finish it after May, my GPA can increase a little bit to 3.05. I know it's still low. But is it better if I wait until the grade get updated?</p>
<p>So briefly, my questions are: 1. Is that true that background check company cannot get my GPA information? 2. Is that same if I submit the background check form now or after my GPA get higher than 3.00?</p>
<p>Thank you. And I promise I won't do this thing again :'(</p>
<p>The background check will at most check that you’re enrolled at the school. Federal law prevents them from finding your gpa unless you give them explicit permission. They may request your transcript…though it will probably be to verify you in fact graduated.</p>
<p>If they are doing a background check, they will find out your GPA. I don’t know what methods they will use, but I was hired by 2 companies after my graduation. For the small company, my employer requested a sealed transcript from the university registrar. Obviously the transcript contained my GPA, so they were going to confirm it. The 2nd company was a huge Fortune 500 company so they hired a 3rd party agency to run an extensive background check on me. They found out everything about me, including the courses I took and the date of my graduation. They sent me a follow-up report after I had completed the background check and according to the report, yes, they did in fact validate my GPA.</p>
<p>You’re an idiot for lying on your resume. This is the real world, you’re an adult and you can’t do that. It’s unprofessional and it can cost you your job. Even if there is not much of a difference between a 3.2 and 3.0, the fact is that you lied. From an employer perspective, if you were willing to lie about this, what else are you willing to lie about? You might as well hope for the best moving forward. There’s still a chance nothing will happen, but don’t be surprised if you are terminated or have your offer rescinded.</p>
<p>You should not lie about anything on your resume. Yes, people do it all the time, and some get away with it. But it’s just not worth the risk.</p>
<p>None of my kids were ever asked for an official transcript, nor did their background checks for employment & internships cross reference anything related to their GPA. They had blood, urine, drug tests, and then criminal & credit checks run on them.</p>
<p>Agreed with notaznguy 100%. If you are worried, you should be, and you have no one to blame but yourself. Background checks are varied in their extensiveness (your local small business may run a background check to make sure you have no outstanding arrest warrants, whereas the CIA may request information from everyone you have ever met), so that may contain a check on your GPA, and it might not.</p>
<p>Even if they don’t check your GPA now, they may request an official transcript once you finish finals. And even if they don’t do that, there is no guarantee that they won’t check your GPA in a few months. </p>
<p>You have little choice but to buckle down and hope that nothing comes of it (unless you want to let the hiring manager know that, as you looked at your resume, you realized you made a mistake in your GPA listing and inform him of your ACTUAL GPA… which may work in your favor since the company did deem you worth the risk of extending an offer, after all), but you messed up on this one.</p>
All of these answers are WAY over dramatic. No, you shouldn’t lie because it can make or break your application if they do check.
HOWEVER most colleges do not release GPA. The only way the inquirer would learn your GPA is via requesting your official transcripts. Google the background check service and see if they do in fact collect that information. You’re probably in the clear.