Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

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The only time anyone ever asked was when I was interviewing for my current job. I'd been out of school 10 years and this was my 4th job.

Found it kind of odd.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

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Not true at all. I use it for judging potential employees when screening applications.

3.04, not too bad for taking a four year Army break between HS and college. Agribusiness major.

Green2Maroon said:

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3.04, not too bad for taking a four year Army break between HS and college. Agribusiness major.

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It seemed that prior service guys (and "older" students in general), were usually pretty good students.

3.1 GPA business management. After 4 yrs in the Marines.

With my field/company, it serves as a pretty reliable filter in identifying who could handle some of our more complex roles and who is a much bigger risk. They may be able to handle the role we're hiring for, but we move people along every couple of years so we're really hiring you for the next 3-5 roles too. So if we screw up and hire someone that had a resume that checked the boxes, interviewed reasonably well, but turns out to be a bit of a dummy that is overwhelmed by some of our more challenging roles that require some brainpower, that person becomes a blocker that F's the career/developmental path up for themselves and others.

So there is a minimum we're looking for to weed out the risks.

DannyDuberstein said:

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With my field/company, it serves as a pretty reliable filter in identifying who could handle some of our more complex roles and who is a much bigger risk. They may be able to handle the role we're hiring for, but we move people along every couple of years so we're really hiring you for the next 3-5 roles too. So if we screw up and hire someone that had a resume that checked the boxes, interviewed reasonably well, but turns out to be a bit of a dummy that is overwhelmed by some of our more challenging roles that require some brainpower, that person becomes a blocker that F's the career/developmental path up for themselves and others.

So there is a minimum we're looking for to weed out the risks.

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Absolutely!

If someone cannot mop floors, how in the hell can you ever expect them to chop lettuce and cook a hamburger.

2.5 in Engineering. We don't talk about that. Look at my fancy diploma!

2.54. Magna Cume Boracho

And you were able to get into male nursing school?

Undergraduate - 2.60
MS - 3.75
Ph.D. - 3.9
MA - 3.5

Many people think the perfect GPA is 4.0, but not if you are in mathematics.

I overachieved and missed the 3.14 gold medal GPA of math majors by .05.

2.5 in Engineering. I rocked that sht though

2.9 BS civil engineering
3.85 MBA

2.9. Smoked too much grass, didnt apply myself. Went back to school 10 years later, 3.8 sober and a parent

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

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A) this is not true

2) GPA is a strong indicator of conscientiousness of the individual at that time. This is more commonly known as work ethic. This doesn't mean one can't become more conscientious later, but if I'm looking at two kids just out of college I'll take the one that's already demonstrated their ability to organize themselves and be productive over one who only has the potential to do so, all else equal.

americathegreat1492 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

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A) this is not true

2) GPA is a strong indicator of conscientiousness of the individual at that time. This is more commonly known as work ethic. This doesn't mean one can't become more conscientious later, but if I'm looking at two kids just out of college I'll take the one that's already demonstrated their ability to organize themselves and be productive over one who only has the potential to do so, all else equal.

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I think the point is once you have some work experience no one looks at GPA. Yeah maybe some one offs but really nobody cares, they care about your experience and how you've performed.

I was always told your GPA is meaningless after one year of your first post college job. After that, it's your experience.

PDEMDHC said:

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I was always told your GPA is meaningless after one year of your first post college job. After that, it's your experience.

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This could be said for about 80% of everything you've ever learned in all of school.

Don't remember
Couldn't care less

2.3, B.S. in Forest Management.

That was when 2.0 and go was the motto in the Corps of cadets.

I graduated Manga Cum Lucky

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2 degrees below zero.

2.6 something or 2.8 something, I can't quite remember.

3.65. I was on track for magna cum laude until my last semester when I contracted a raging case of senioritis.

americathegreat1492 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Protip: Nobody cares about GPA and it is entirely irrelevant in the real world.

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A) this is not true

2) GPA is a strong indicator of conscientiousness of the individual at that time. This is more commonly known as work ethic. This doesn't mean one can't become more conscientious later, but if I'm looking at two kids just out of college I'll take the one that's already demonstrated their ability to organize themselves and be productive over one who only has the potential to do so, all else equal.

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A) It is true.

B) See A.

Eleven

B.S. 2.3 chemistry & zoology
M.Ed. 3.8 applied physiology
M.S. 3.7 sport science (had to settle for 2nd masters when kid 2 came along)

Getting into a Wildlife graduate program is fairly difficult to begin with (not very many openings). Without an MS, getting into the field is extremely difficult. Later on when I started sitting on interview panels, field experience (liked 4 years post college), then grad GPA, undergrad in major GPA, then overall....and I was known to go fishing for grades of relevant classes.