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Originally Posted by MetroWord
people have caught on that there is no correlation between GPA and work performance. Study after study have shown that GPA and work performance has no correlation. None at all.
I'm now 17 years out of college, and the positions I'm currently apply for still require not only college transcripts, but high school as well. They also weigh gpa heavily. They don't care this stuff was from half my lifetime ago. It's ridiculous.
Getting into med school. GPA is crucially important. Probably important for law school applicants as well. Most graduate programs (MA/MS/PhD). Some elite entry jobs in finance, law, or government, where your paper credentials such as GPA, prestigious school, etc., all play a role in the hiring process because you have little job experience as yet.
Ten years out of school, no one really cares about GPA anymore except maybe some rules-bound employers such as the federal government.
In technology, they not only don't care about GPA, they don't even care whether you have a degree, let alone where it's from. There are so many brilliant programmers and such who didn't even go to school, or dropped out midway because they founded tech startups their junior year and so forth. Bill Gates springs to mind. I believe Facebook founder Zuckerberg didn't graduate either.
I would say, in general, don't obsess about grades too much; do your best, let the grades reflect your best efforts. Then once you have your first job, you can put away the transcripts and never think about them for the rest of your life, if you're lucky.
Flight crew. It's just so extremely competitive they use any metric they can to weed applicant numbers down. This is one way they do so. It is what it is and we deal with it. Regardless of experience or age, they require full transcripts and gpa is weighed heavily. There are many other hoops to jump through as well that 'normal' jobs don't require (psych profile by a psychologist, release of full medical history, review of volunteer work, cognitive exams, and on and on and on.)
I was asked a lot about my GPA, but I was in Accounting, and I think it's modestly important.
Even more important once I realized I should have never majored in it, and my professors should not have passed me or encouraged me to continue.
Seriously, I'm dumber than a bag of hair. Accountants are smart.
To work for the government, at least in Accounting, your beginning salary is based in part on your GPA. Your entry "step" or whatever its called--is higher if your GPA is at least 3.0.
Definitely upper level finance. Prestige is a huge factor there.
In finance it's all about the college you went to, the companies you worked for in the past, and the set of alphabets behind your name (CPA, CFA, PMP, etc). Once again, after your first entry level job, they don't care about GPA. I worked in the finance field and, after my first job, was never asked about GPA again. I would laugh if a recruiter asked about it now decades after college.
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