<p>I am currently an engineering student at a top ranked engineering school. My GPA is extremely close to a 3.0 (a few hundreds of a point away). Should I include it on my resume?</p>
<p>Yes, include it. A lot of companies will not consider you without it. If you are not a senior then you will still have 1st semester to bring that up seeing as resume drops for interns do not usually deadline until late December into 2008.</p>
<p>i was at this resume workshop yesterday and the lady said to only put your gpa if its 3.4 or higher</p>
<p>Just lie. Say you have a 3.2 or something. It really doesnt matter in the long run.</p>
<p>No, don't lie. Sometimes there are minimum requirements for internships, in which case they ask for a transcript as proof. Everybody that I've talked to has recommended 3.0 being the cutoff to decide if you should publish that info. </p>
<p>There is no reason you need to calculate your GPA to the hundredths place. Just do it to the nearest tenth, since most GPA requirements are expressed to the nearest tenth as well. My school actually only displayed it to the tenths, so I had no choice unless I wanted to calculate it myself.</p>
<p>Put it down and if your major GPA is higher, put it down too.</p>
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There is no reason you need to calculate your GPA to the hundredths place. Just do it to the nearest tenth, since most GPA requirements are expressed to the nearest tenth as well. My school actually only displayed it to the tenths, so I had no choice unless I wanted to calculate it myself.
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<p>Don't round. Put exactly what is on your transcript. If your school goes 1 place past the decimal then do the same on the resume. If your school goes 2 places past the decimal then do that on your resume.</p>
<p>"Just lie. Say you have a 3.2 or something. It really doesnt matter in the long run."</p>
<p>Every employer, 100% of them, use extensive background check services. Your summer jobs, grades, references, will eventually be verified. Not telling the truth is the quickest way out the door. And your reason for dismissal will be shown to other employers.</p>
<p>In the bigger scheme of things, if you need to lie to get ahead, at some point, you will eventually be exposed as a fraud. In a meeting, presentation, whatever, it will be come apparent that you ain't what you said were.</p>
<p>Your personal integrity is the only thing you've got going for you. Don't tarnish your own reputation and be known as a liar. It will stick with you forever.</p>
<p>I agree, don't lie about it. </p>
<p>You are getting the degree from a top school. I would say, if it's 3.0 or above, put it down.</p>
<p>Also, the GPA only needs to stay on your resume for your first, maybe second, job.</p>
<p>If your GPA is higher when you calculate it using only classes required for your major, put that down and call it something like "in-major gpa" or something. They're not going to care whether you got a C in Introduction to the Appreciation of Chocolate as a freshman or not.
That's like lying, but not really. Just don't give them what they might be expecting.</p>
<p>For my current internship, my employer hired a company who only does background checks... so I'm sure they'll be thorough about the checks. </p>
<p>And what quicksilver suggested isn't lying at all - it's marketing. And that's what a resume is... a flyer to market yourself to employers, and not a biographical statement. You only mention the positives and not the negatives.</p>
<p>At first, I was reading "a few hundreds of a point" and was wondering... do GPA scales even go to few hundred points?</p>
<p>Well, a few hundredth of a point is barely noticeable. I mean, does anybody even care about a 3.0 and a 2.98? But if it's something further, then I would reconsider.</p>
<p>the american grading system is wierd.</p>
<p>In my school above 93% is an A (4.00)</p>
<p>so if a student gets somewhere btw 90-91, thats an A- (3.67)</p>
<p>so there really is no difference btw a 93 and a 100, but there is some differences btw a 93 and 92..</p>
<p>More pressure to aim for a higher mark? There shouldn't be an overly heavy emphasis on grades alone...</p>