<p>There are many on this forum who scoff at fit when choosing a college, but unfortunately what people are saying here is that “fit” also applies all through life and particularly when students are looking for a company and a company is looking for a student. “Fit” is part of the equation and hiring is holistic. A good GPA is nice and it seems to be ‘the thing’ for these college grads to put that on their resumes – something I didn’t see even 5 years ago. So if you put that on your resume then yes, the reader of that resume will take note. Could be a positive thing or could be an off-put to someone regardless if it’s high or low. Our on-line system does not ask for GPA so the first parse of a person does not take GPA into consideration anyway. And once it’s passed the litmus test in HR often the choice lies with the manager. I will tell my kids not to put GPA on their resume. I’ve said on other threads that we recruit engineers at a variety of places some are relatively unknown others are known, and like the previous poster even being a Fortune 100 company we do not have the recruiting staff to “hit” every engineering school in the nation, let alone around the globe. We tend to fish where we’ve found fish before. We don’t give brownie points to a student graduating from a brand name engineering program over the kid from no-name Tech because we’ve already hired from those schools and we known the grads can do the job. And just like colleges we have diversity goals to meet. So if you are a parent that has to have some value equation associated with your students college name, look at the names of the companies recruiting and actually “hiring” grads from that school consistantly year to year. Read the alumni magazines and see where those college students are and what they are doing 5 years out. That will give you a much better indication of the potential “pay off” for a particular college. Me I don’t have a pay-off equation necessarily, I just want my kids to come out of college well rounded, articulate, confident and an adult with a degree in their hand. All this is much more important than “are they a 2.0 at an Ivy league school.” They will be fine out in the big word with those skills.</p>