GPA for Junior Year Internships

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Quick background:
-messed up freshman year horribly
-improved soph year
-current cumulative GPA: 2.6
-current major GPA in finance: 3.67
-attend good school
-interned Freshman year at Bloomberg L.P
-interned this year at small accounting firm</p>

<p>Going to be a junior this year and will be applying for serious internships for next summer that hopefully lead to a job when I graduate. Problem is that now my cumulative is not a 3.0 which strongly limits my opportunities. I am aware that companies will ask for my transcript after senior year but by the time I graduate I WILL have a 3.0 cumulative with a high major gpa, but at the moment it's not. I would not even bother with these high level internships but since I had a strong internship my freshman year and sophomore year I think that gives me an upper hand. </p>

<p>My Options:</p>

<p>A) on resume lie and put 3.0 cumulative with 3.67 major
-Risk them asking for transcript (Bloomberg did not and neither did this accounting firm)</p>

<p>B) on resume just put 3.67 major gpa
-Will get asked in interview what my cumulative is </p>

<p>C) on resume don't put a GPA and rely on previous internship exp. to get me in</p>

<p>Would greatly appreciate advice.</p>

<p>Thank You,
Dan</p>

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<p>Here’s what you can expect results to be with all three of the options you laid out:</p>

<p>a) You will inevitably be caught when companies request transcripts. You might not have had to submit one freshman year, but you can bet that you will junior year. When you are caught, not only will you be rejected from that company, but recruiters will talk and you are likely to be blacklisted throughout the industry, and if you applied through your campus career services, you will likely be banned from further use of the service.</p>

<p>b) If you use your major GPA (that’s what I did, actually, though it wasn’t as dramatically better than my cumulative GPA as yours), look at your school’s resume requirements; different schools have different requirements, as some require you to list out specific courses taken while others simply ask that you refrain from using a major GPA until you’ve taken a minimum of four major courses. This is a very good option for you.</p>

<p>c) GPA’s pretty much expected by all major companies. Failing to include it is a giant red flag, and I can nearly guarantee that previous internship experience will not be enough to get you a junior internship.</p>