<p>“GPA of admitted students is a factor in USNWR rankings”</p>
<p>How do you explain that employers also hire high-GPA graduates regardless of difficulty of majors and courses? They are not ranked by USNWR.</p>
<p>The fact is that when you get CDs with hundreds of resumes from the college placement offices for only a dozen spots, the GPA is just a very convenient cutoff metric, niceties be damned.</p>