Mass Mail Question Forum

[Anonymous User]

When mass mailing for OCI, should a transcript be sent along, or should I wait for them to ask for it?

(Median-ish grades if it matters)

[Anonymous User]

I wouldn't send a transcript for median grades. I'm sure your GPA is on your resume, so you don't want to draw any extra attention to it. You would only send an unsolicited transcript if your grades are a key selling point

[Anonymous User]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

[kaiser]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

So all you have is your rank? Hmm, that is sort of a dilemma since you don't want to put "50th percentile" on your resume, but at the same time, you can't have a complete lack of academic information from 1L year. I can't really say I know the answer here. My intuition says that you should just wait for the employers to request grades info before you provide any. Perhaps they will just see "Columbia" and be so impressed that they don't even bother looking too hard at academic info.

[Anonymous User]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

Calculate your own GPA and call it "estimated:" (e.g., "GPA: 3.52 (estimated)"). Schools don't "assign" GPAs, and you can bet every other Columbia student will be calculating their GPA and putting it down.

[Vronsky]

"Class Rank: Top 50%" sounds better than "50th Percentile"

[5ky]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

So all you have is your rank? Hmm, that is sort of a dilemma since you don't want to put "50th percentile" on your resume, but at the same time, you can't have a complete lack of academic information from 1L year. I can't really say I know the answer here. My intuition says that you should just wait for the employers to request grades info before you provide any. Perhaps they will just see "Columbia" and be so impressed that they don't even bother looking too hard at academic info.

UVa doesn't give a "GPA" or "rank." You just calculate your GPA yourself and put it on your resume if you desire.

[thesealocust]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

So all you have is your rank? Hmm, that is sort of a dilemma since you don't want to put "50th percentile" on your resume, but at the same time, you can't have a complete lack of academic information from 1L year. I can't really say I know the answer here. My intuition says that you should just wait for the employers to request grades info before you provide any. Perhaps they will just see "Columbia" and be so impressed that they don't even bother looking too hard at academic info.

UVa doesn't give a "GPA" or "rank." You just calculate your GPA yourself and put it on your resume if you desire.

Your GPA appears on some pages in SIS, just not on the transcript that slowly finds its way to symplicity.

[5ky]

Columbia doesn't assign GPA's, and therefore cannot be placed on a resume. Does that change anything?

So all you have is your rank? Hmm, that is sort of a dilemma since you don't want to put "50th percentile" on your resume, but at the same time, you can't have a complete lack of academic information from 1L year. I can't really say I know the answer here. My intuition says that you should just wait for the employers to request grades info before you provide any. Perhaps they will just see "Columbia" and be so impressed that they don't even bother looking too hard at academic info.

UVa doesn't give a "GPA" or "rank." You just calculate your GPA yourself and put it on your resume if you desire.

Your GPA appears on some pages in SIS, just not on the transcript that slowly finds its way to symplicity.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. No GPA "for purposes of outside employers," I suppose.

[thesealocust]

Eh, some schools (cough penn cough) try to pretend GPAs don't exist and prohibit their calculation. While UVA doesn't make them obvious, it also doesn't go far enough to say we have no GPA for the purposes of outside employers.