Rounding GPA on resume Forum

[Anonymous User]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

[Danteshek]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

Do not round - that would be a serious ethical breach at my school. (forthcoming)

[CG614]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

It is generally acceptable to round to the hundredths place. LSAC does, I don't see why you can't.

[CG614]

Also, why is this anonymous? You can easily ask this question without putting your real GPA.

[Danteshek]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

It is generally acceptable to round to the hundredths place. LSAC does, I don't see why you can't.

You are misrepresenting your academic performance. Ask your career services office.

[nealric]

Do not round - that would be a serious ethical breach at my school. (forthcoming)

Usually the school will have a standard place to round to. For may GPAs, you have to round. I mean, what if you had a 3.33333333- repeating?

Most are OK with hundredths.

[CG614]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

It is generally acceptable to round to the hundredths place. LSAC does, I don't see why you can't.

You are misrepresenting your academic performance. Ask your career services office.

By rounding to the hundredths place? Get a grip.

Edit to add. You should make sure your school doesn't have a policy about rounding. But it is generally acceptable to round to the hundredths place, in the corporate world.

[Danteshek]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

It is generally acceptable to round to the hundredths place. LSAC does, I don't see why you can't.

You are misrepresenting your academic performance. Ask your career services office.

By rounding to the hundredths place? Get a grip.

This guy wants to be a lawyer. If you don't see how this is unethical, maybe you should drop out and go to business school instead.

[CG614]

Duke Law tells you to round to hundredths.

http://www.law.duke.edu/career/profdev/resume

[CG614]

This guy wants to be a lawyer. If you don't see how this is unethical, maybe you should drop out and go to business school instead.

Look, you are wrong. If your school has a policy against this, then don't do it. Most don't, in fact some tell you to round to the hundredths.

[Anonymous User]

Thanks all!
My school doesn't seem to have a specific policy for this, but a google search showed the majority of schools say NOT to round up. (A few do say otherwise).

Therefore I think the the prudent thing to do is simply put 3.325

[CG614]

Thanks all!
My school doesn't seem to have a specific policy for this, but a google search showed the majority of schools say NOT to round up. (A few do say otherwise).

Therefore I think the the prudent thing to do is simply put 3.325

Personally, I'd go with Duke's policy, they have 100% employment at graduation.

[cinefile 17]

I would just put 3.3

[AppsAbound]

Not claiming to have the right answer. But if you are going to round, do not do it so you have given yourself more credit than you have earned. As a rounding rule, round up or down given which is closer. .2, .3, .4, and .5 should be rounded down.

An increase of .0075 would require at least one of your grades being changed. That could be considered a misrepresentation.

For a resume though, I wouldn't round at all.

[CG614]

Not claiming to have the right answer. But if you are going to round, do not do it so you have given yourself more credit than you have earned. As a rounding rule, round up or down given which is closer. .2, .3, .4, and .5 should be rounded down.

An increase of .0075 would require at least one of your grades being changed. That could be considered a misrepresentation.

For a resume though, I wouldn't round at all.

This answer makes no sense and I award you no points...

[merichard87]

I would just put 3.3

[ze2151]

3.3 is what i'd do. I drop the hundredths place for my resume, and I don't see the big deal. Can't imagine I'd lose a job b/c my gpa is 3.8 and not 3.83.

[RVP11]

Wait, why are people putting their LS GPAs on their resumes at all? Isn't that what transcripts are for?

[Anonymous User]

I have a similar question. For class rank on my resume I wrote Top 20%. However, when you do the math, I'm actually at 20.61%. Is that highly unethical? I wouldn't want to write Top 21%, and dropping it down to Top 25% kind of sucks.

[nealric]

Wait, why are people putting their LS GPAs on their resumes at all? Isn't that what transcripts are for?

At at GULC, most firms will immediately assume you are sub 3.0 because career services advises you to only drop the GPA of the resume if it sub 3.0.

For class rank on my resume I wrote Top 20%. However, when you do the math, I'm actually at 20.61%. Is that highly unethical? I wouldn't want to write Top 21%, and dropping it down to Top 25% kind of sucks.

Why not just put your exact class rank and let them do the math?

[RVP11]

Wait, why are people putting their LS GPAs on their resumes at all? Isn't that what transcripts are for?

At at GULC, most firms will immediately assume you are sub 3.0 because career services advises you to only drop the GPA of the resume if it sub 3.0.

But isn't your transcript, for OCI, automatically available on Symplicity?

[nealric]

But isn't your transcript, for OCI, automatically available on Symplicity?

Sure, but you don't want to make the interviewer do any extra work (s)he may not have necessarily printed it out beforehand.

[Danteshek]

This guy wants to be a lawyer. If you don't see how this is unethical, maybe you should drop out and go to business school instead.

Says the guy at Southwestern. Look, you are wrong. If your school has a policy against this, then don't do it. Most don't, in fact some tell you to round to the hundredths.

Good luck in law school, 0L.

[AppsAbound]

Not claiming to have the right answer. But if you are going to round, do not do it so you have given yourself more credit than you have earned. As a rounding rule, round up or down given which is closer. .2, .3, .4, and .5 should be rounded down.

An increase of .0075 would require at least one of your grades being changed. That could be considered a misrepresentation.

For a resume though, I wouldn't round at all.

This answer makes no sense and I award you no points...

Ha. It's almost 5 so I really don't care about points. I've edited to my own response to clarify.

[Anonymous User]

Anybody know the etiquette for this?
I'm a rising 3L with a 3.325
Can/should I round this to a 3.33 or should I put the whole thing?

Also, anybody know the proper way to include a student note that is going to be published (but is not published yet)???

Depends on your school. Our school has a policy that bans rounding up. For example, a GPA of 3.549 can only be reported as 3, 3.5, 3.54, or 3.549.