<p>Hi everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I'll get right to the issue. Thanks for all the input. </p>
<p>Here is my situation:</p>
<p>I am a senior at Temple University's Business School (it's like a middle of the pack school).
I am a double major in accounting and Risk management & Insurance
Just a couple of weeks ago I accepted an offer as a tax associate with Grant Thornton.
At the time I interviewed my GPA was a 3.84, and an ACCT GPA of 3.83
I graduate in May 2012
I am scheduled to begin work in fall 2012. </p>
<p>This semester I am only taking 3 classes and I will likely end up earning 2 C's and a B. one of the C's will be in advanced accounting. </p>
<p>This will significantly lower my cumulative GPA and especially my ACCT GPA.</p>
<p>considering that Grant Thornton hired me, in large, on account of my academic strength, what is the likelihood they will rescind the job offer? </p>
<p>This is killing me, I'm losing sleep at night and feel so totally miserable that 3 years of killing myself to get straight A's will be ruined by one cruelly untimely awful semester that just had to have coincided with me getting a job offer. </p>
<p>There are specific reasons my performance dropped, and not just because I got lazy or stupid this semester. But I figure GT really won't care, because their clients don't care what the excuses are when shoddy work is done or deadlines are missed. </p>
<p>please, please, please be honest with me. I have already told my family and all my friends about my new job and I will be absolutely crushed if they withdraw the offer. </p>
<p>If you have 90-100 or more credits at your current school and a GPA of 3.83, the chances are that 2 Cs and a B won’t lower your GPA by much–it may drop to 3.6, which is still good. Just don’t screw your next semester and you will be fine.</p>
<p>thanks for the assurance. I feel a bit better. even so…</p>
<p>what should I say if they ask me when I go through the new hire processing as to why I got a C in advanced accounting? </p>
<p>The truth is that I messed up exam 1 because I missed like 80% course material taught for exam 1 because i was interviewing all the time. </p>
<p>and for the second exam, and I know this sounds along the line of “my dog ate my homework” but I really did suffer a concussion and a subsequent TIA event 5 days before the exam. For the first 4 days after it happened i couldn’t focus my vision or remember my address, nevermind learn to account for inter-company sales, inventory and COGS eliminations and adjustments.</p>
<p>You can tell them the truth. For instance, that you spend most of the time preparing for the interviews, and was concentrated on getting the job offer. Though I’m pretty sure that you must exclude the incident with your dog, for they may assume that you are joking or making fun of them, as anybody else would.</p>
<p>does anyone know of any instances when a job offer has been withdrawn due to poor academic performance in the student’s senior year? </p>
<p>also, do employer’s check a student’s grades at the end of each semester or just final transcript upon graduation. (that is, do they check grades for fall semester of senior year, or do they just wait until the student has graduated and look at both senior year semesters together).</p>
<p>I ask because it would look a lot better if they see that after having a bad fall semester, i bounced back with a 4.00 spring semester, that way the fall semester doesn’t look so bad as it would if looked at separately.</p>
<p>The company I work for didn’t even check to see if I graduated after giving me an offer 9 months before graduation… and it’s one of the biggest corps in America. </p>
<p>Just try to recover as much as possible. And, looking at it from the company’s perspective, by the time that they find out, it’s going to a little late for them to do over the whole hiring process. Like, for the team that was planning on having a new hire start with them for months in advance, I kind of doubt that they would throw that out the window just because of a few grades.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, i have similar problem. I got offer from GT that is contingent on overall and major GPA above 3.0. When I signed the offer my overall GPA was 3.6 and major 3.2, however I got C in one class that counts toward my major GPA and now it is 2.96. I have two more major classes to take and I still have chance to bring major GPA above 3.0 but I am anxious and I need advice. Does anyone know will I be able to keep job offer if my major GPA is just below 3.0 ? Overal GPA will be around 3.5</p>
<p>Major GPA is something that employers only look at if you make it a point to include it in your resume. As long as your cumulative GPA stays above a 3.0 when you graduate with a degree, then you’re fine.</p>
<p>Hi, after this semester, my gpa took a huge hit, dropping to 2.75 because I have been cramming all the upper division classes together in order to graduate as a transfer. I may get an internship offer from GT, but may be rescinded. What should I do at this point because I am graduating and can’t pull my gpa up very much unless I get all As, which is very unlikely. Which firm will hire a 2.75 student?</p>