<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I was wondering...do you guys ever round your GPA up when you put it on your resume? If so, at what range would it not be considered lying? Thanks.</p>
<p>i think the basic rule is don’t round up to 4.0 and rounding to one decimal is acceptable. so instead of a 3.85 you could write 3.9.</p>
<p>if you end up with a gpa in the 3.9_ range, keep the hundredths place.</p>
<p>really depends on who’s looking at your resume… i mean if there’s a 3.5 cut off and you have a 3.46, that’s a tricky situation because it may be considered falsifying your eligibility. </p>
<p>i’d still do it though. whatever gets you to the interview room i guess.</p>
<p>edit: and yeah i always round my gpa to one decimal place. but maybe rounding to the hundredths place would make you look a bit more meticulous (?) who knows.</p>
<p>Why not put whatever is listed on official transcripts and grade reports?</p>
<p>exactly. would you round down to 3.6 if your gpa was 3.64? If you look into your heart and know that you wouldn’t round a 3.93 to a 3.9, then you should realize that rounding UP when it is at 3.57 is tantamount to cheating.</p>
<p>I personally think it’s OK, as long as you follow conventions in numbers of significant figures.</p>
<p>3.649 rounds to 3.6, and 3.650 rounds to 3.7. It’s accurate, just less precise.</p>
<p>If there’s any place that looks down at rounding up but doesn’t look down at rounding up, that’s a double standard. If I get questioned about accuracy, you bet I’ll defend myself to the end and not apologize. On the same vein, I’d rather have no job than work at a place with such antics.</p>
<p>i agree with excelblue, i’d never apologize for rounding up to the next decimal point (though you should never round up to 4.0).</p>
<p>i believe rounding to the nearest decimal is actually quite common practice and generally excepted. </p>
<p>if you disagree and feel it is somehow equivalent to “cheating” then i can respect that, so go ahead and just don’t round. just do what you feel is right and appropriate for the resume’s purpose.</p>
<p>again, whatever gets you to the interview room.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone that you should round up if it’ll get you the interview, but only if you know you have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>Really, the rules for rounding are dictated by the context.
If someone is asking for your GPA verbally, and you feel like exaggerating, a 3.45 is indeed a 3.5.
If it’s on paperwork or on a website, and there are 3 boxes (2 for the decimals) for your GPA, you should put in 3.45 instead of 3.5 because that is the precision that fits the boxes.
If the rules for a scholarship explicitly states a 3.50 minimum, then a 3.45 would not have the cut either.</p>
<p>Yeah, when there’s boxes, you better fill it in to the precision they ask.</p>
<p>3.499 = 3.50 != 3.500</p>
<p>Now, suppose some weird place decided to have five boxes but your transcript only goes to four digits. Then, for the fifth box, it’d be dishonest to put 0; you either leave it blank or put in some non-number (eg. *, ?, X).</p>