<p>recently i got an offer for an internship but i am a bit worried about background check. on my resume i put "major GPA" and put it as 3.19. my cumulative gpa is about 2.97 (going up to 3.01 after my grades for winter quarter comes out). all of this is true. but i am worried that they might rescind the offer when they see that my gpa doesn't "match". meaning that i didn't put 2.97.
even then, my major gpa is now a 3.13 but that's just because i hadn't updated my gpa on my resume in a while, just never remembered. </p>
<p>Did they tell you they were doing a background check of some kind? Did they ask you for an offical transcript or something?</p>
<p>If they did, it mostly depends on whether or not your resume was accurate at the time of submission. If it wasn’t, then you lied and it is quite possible that they will drop you - when you submit a resume, there is an assumption that is current and accurate.</p>
<p>If it WAS accurate then your only real problem is if they have some kind of hard cutoff at 3.0 cumulative GPA. If that is the case then you are ALSO screwed, but they should have said that somewhere along the line. The change in your major GPA is a non issue.</p>
<p>they haven’t said anything about background check this is just coming from friends that are working there. they didn’t ask for a transcript.</p>
<p>i guess you can call it lying but honestly i just forgot about updating the gpa when going through the resume. </p>
<p>there wasn’t a minimum gpa requirement in the job description that i usually see in their other job listings. would the company be allowed to get my school records even with my signature though? i do predict both major and cumulative gpa going up though after grades come out which is probably when they’ll ask for it.</p>
<p>I’m not 100% sure of this, but I believe that unless you explicitly gave them access to your grades, it would be illegal for the college to divulge them.</p>
<p>kevin, if I were to see a resume where someone put their “major gpa”, I would take that to mean that their overall gpa was lower. What you are talking about is peanuts. If they ask you, you just tell them what you told us. Besides if the worst case scenario were to happen, worrying about it isn’t going to change anything. So don’t worry about it. And on the positive side, you just learned to be more diligent in updating your resume and it will carry through the rest of your life.</p>