<p>Hi, </p>
<p>If I attended a community college before my current university, and a resume asks for a GPA, is it okay to just write down the average of the CC and university GPAs? Or should I just write down the university GPA? Or do I need to write them down separately? </p>
<p>Thanks, </p>
<p>Al.</p>
<p>Do they ask for your Major GPA or cumulative GPA?</p>
<p>Well, this is just for my resume. But I guess I could put both on there.</p>
<p>thats suggested</p>
<p>Maybe write both down, separately, in a concise manner? Or you can just say top _% if you want.</p>
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<p>Absolutely not! </p>
<p>Every company I’ve ever worked for immediately reject your application for doing that. I know of four cases where I hired a student, then when the transcript came in, the resume and transcript didn’t match for this exact reason. Every time, HR pulled the job offer. Companies do check your transcript, even for internships. They usually don’t do it until after you’re hired and a week or two before your start date.</p>
<p>What you want to do is pull a transcript from your school, and write down your GPA exactly as it appears. Don’t round up (a 2.999 is not a 3.00), don’t use two digits instead of three, don’t average GPAs, and don’t guess at future GPAs. All of those things are “fireable offenses”.</p>
<p>You can put two GPAs (one for each school), or just your degree-granting school’s GPA. Also include a major GPA if it helps (it is usually better than the overall). But whatever you do, make sure whatever is on your transcript matches your resume.</p>
<p>ok heres my question. We have half semester courses. I just got an A but the carer website is not updated. Its still the same for the first three semesters.</p>
<p>Now, i can guess that in a week or so after the fair, the gpa is will be updated. What do i do? tell them it wasnt available when i applied? or just say that i am reporting what the schools has right now?</p>
<p>Ouch. Thanks for the advice G.P. Burdell! </p>
<p>So 3 digits. If I have a half class (1.5 credits) is it acceptable to include that with half weight? If companies are throwing out applications where the GPA doesn’t match the transcript, I guess it might be a good idea to make GPA estimates err on the low side. </p>
<p>And I’m not sure I understand the rounding thing. If I have a 2.999 and they want 3 digits, it should be 3.00, that’s just how rounding works. Obviously you can’t round a 2.1 to a 4.0 and say that you were just giving it to one significant figure. But if they want 3 sig figs, why can’t you round out the last sig fig? </p>
<p>Also my college, WPI, is sort of strange in that they don’t compute GPAs unless you request it explicitly and they don’t do a class rank. But when they ask for a class rank, I just count A’s as 4s and B’s as 3s, and it works out.</p>
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<p>No. GPAs are not rounded, they are truncated. This is done specifically to maintain the “sanctity” of the 4.00. So, a 2.999 becomes 2.99. It’s not rounded, it’s truncated.</p>
<p>WPI doesn’t have an online record system where you can pull an unofficial transcript with GPA? That’s strange. Also, I don’t know any large colleges that provide class ranks. That’s sort of a silly thing to do considering that people in the same class are all in different majors and are taking different courses.</p>
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<p>Hmmm… Apparently they do have that online. Thanks! </p>
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<p>Apparently they do. And I had always assumed that other schools did class ranks, but apparently WPI doesn’t…</p>