I have a summer internship offer in hand and I am very excited. When I applied for the job it required a minimum 3.0 gpa for applying. They did not ask for proof yet. I have a 3.11 but am in engineering at very hard school and have some tough classes. My gpa will likely drop just below 3.0 because of a B- and possible C+ this semester. They haven’t started background checks and I expect they will ask for transcript after the semester ends. Should I say something now or just wait and see what happens? I think my gpa will be a 2.95 after this semester ends. I really want this internship but likelihood of pushing gpa up to 3.0 is low. Any general experience with how tight they manage to these?
Bust your tail to keep that 3.0 if you can. You still have finals – do nothing but study for the next couple weeks. Not just for this summer, but it will be easier going forward if you can keep above that mark.
It costs the company time and money to hire you (background checks, payroll processing, etc.) I completed seven internships and not one asked for my current GPA at the start of the role. You should be fine. Best of luck!
Same as artsy, none of my internships have asked asked for a GPA check after sending me an offer.
So they just sent me a note that they won’t do background checks for a few months. So the newest predicament is do I proactively tell them my gpa will be like a 2.95 to make sure they will still hire me or do I just wait and see if anything happens. I am torn. On the one hand I want to be forthright and honest since I was completely honest on my applications etc. on the other hand I could open a box that I shouldn’t open. UGH
I did bust my tail off and these classes were so hard… these were my grades 
I have always been a horrible test taker
Again, they may not ever confirm your GPA, nor is it set right now. Be honest with any information asked for but I don’t see any need to be proactive about it, at the very least until final grades come back, if ever. When you applied, you had the GPA you listed and that was honest.
If you get the final GPA back and it is still under 3.0, this is an honestly tough predicament that goes pretty far into ethical theory, and you will have people on both sides.
My personal take (coming from a consequentialist view) is that you were honest before and should answer any questions honestly in the future, but a GPA requirement does not (individually) correlate to job ability. Grades do not always accurately reflect someone’s ability to work on a particular job. GPA cutoffs are usually used to narrow a pool - if the company has already interviewed you and decided to hire you, a small GPA change would not make the difference to a reasonable person. However, corporate policy does not always correlate and may place strict rules on this. For that reason, I would argue for omission unless asked, in which case you should explain fully and honestly.
I don’t claim my take is flawless or that people will not disagree, but I don’t think you’ll find that for any solution presented here. People often hold to rules that tend to be positive generally true, and lies by omission can be harmful, so I am not claiming categorically that lies by omission are okay. I’m only claiming that I find it acceptable in this situation, so long as, to the best of your ability, you objectively can still say that you are qualified for the job and your lower GPA does not somehow harm anyone. I find an argument for that pretty hard to find.
I am absolutely qualified as much as an intern can be and frankly I was sick for literally a month and a half this semester with a terrible virus which caused be to fall behind in all my classes - I was never really able to recover from missing so much and being sick for so long (i even took one of my midterms really sick since I knew I could never have time to make it up). I guess I will just let things lie since I do feel like I’m splitting hairs. Hopefully no further health issues and I can resolve this completely with the next term although my classes are exceptionally hard next semester as well. thanks for advise