<p>If overall GPA is below 3.0…sometimes even in Engineering/CS, whether a school’s Ivy/elite or non won’t matter. That is, unless one has impressive relevant work/EC experiences or is an experienced employee with a good track record. </p>
<p>Name/type of school is irrelevant as I’ve seen with friends of HS friends attending schools like Harvard and Columbia with 2.x GPAs having a hard time getting hired even in a good economy. </p>
<p>Same with a cousin who attended a well-respected engineering school who needed another six months after graduation in the late '80s to land his first engineering/CS job because his overall GPA was ten-thousandth of a point below 3.0. Upon hearing/seeing that during some campus interviews, some interviewers would abruptly end the interview and were brutally frank about why…the GPA. In contrast, his above 3.0 friends had multiple offers before graduation. Sometimes as early as their second-semester junior year despite the fact some had no relevant EC/industry working experience whereas he had it in spades with strong references. </p>
<p>This experience was one reason why despite his subsequent career successes, he was adamant about telling younger relatives like myself to NEVER ALLOW YOUR CUMULATIVE GPA TO FALL BELOW 3.0.</p>