GPA on Resume Forum

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:34 am

GPA is X.X55. Listing it as X.X6 on resume okay or not?

fatduck · Post by **fatduck** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:35 am

JetsFan1990 · Post by **JetsFan1990** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:35 am

not okay.

Teoeo · Post by **Teoeo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:47 am

I'm amazed you even asked.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:41 pm

What? Not OP, but why would this not be ok? 3.455 should be rounded up to a 3.46, no?

kalvano · Post by **kalvano** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:44 pm

Anonymous User wrote:What? Not OP, but why would this not be ok? 3.455 should be rounded up to a 3.46, no?

No. It's not OK. GPA's should go to three decimal places and do not round up.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:45 pm

I think it depends on the school. my school gave specific instructions on when it can be rounded up and when it cant...

de5igual · Post by **de5igual** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:45 pm

Anonymous User wrote:I think it depends on the school. my school gave specific instructions on when it can be rounded up and when it cant...

+1

some schools have you round up to the nearest hundredth. if that's the case, no biggie.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:46 pm

Anonymous User wrote:What? Not OP, but why would this not be ok? 3.455 should be rounded up to a 3.46, no?

Check with your school's grade reporting policy. I know at my school this is considered a serious infraction of the honor code and could lead to disciplinary actions if you were caught doing so. Unless you outright state that you're rounding up (and who would do that instead of just putting their actual GPA), the only reason you would ever round is to misrepresent your grades as being higher than they are. It's fraud, plain and simple.

ilovesf · Post by **ilovesf** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:50 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:What? Not OP, but why would this not be ok? 3.455 should be rounded up to a 3.46, no?
Check with your school's grade reporting policy. I know at my school this is considered a serious infraction of the honor code and could lead to disciplinary actions if you were caught doing so. Unless you outright state that you're rounding up (and who would do that instead of just putting their actual GPA), the only reason you would ever round is to misrepresent your grades as being higher than they are. It's fraud, plain and simple.

For us too. You'd be in serious trouble for rounding up. I would just list your gpa- it's not worth it.

luthersloan · Post by **luthersloan** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:54 pm

Yeah, it varies by school. I was told to round to nearest hundredth.

dabbadon8 · Post by **dabbadon8** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:01 pm

luthersloan wrote:Yeah, it varies by school. I was told to round to nearest hundredth.

NotMyRealName09 · Post by **NotMyRealName09** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:13 pm

A 3.495 is not a 3.50. The existance of GPA cutoffs is why you cannot do this.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:01 pm

Same here with the honor code business.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:50 pm

OP here. We were told to round to the nearest hundredth. I take it the recommendation would be to still play it safe and not round, correct?

TiberiusTyrone · Post by **TiberiusTyrone** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:59 pm

you could always say: 3.46 (rounded to the nearest hundredth)

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:59 pm

Anonymous User wrote:OP here. We were told to round to the nearest hundredth. I take it the recommendation would be to still play it safe and not round, correct?

You should do whatever your school tells you to do.

If your school standard is 3.XX then you should round appropriately to 3.XX from 3.XXX. Similarly, all the people clamoring for 3.XXX certainly have to round their GPA from 3.XXXX.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:00 pm

TiberiusTyrone wrote:you could always say: 3.46 (rounded to the nearest hundredth)

Why? if the school standard is 3.XX, then of course its rounded to the nearest hundredth. It's not like people say, 3.XXX (rounded to the nearest thousandth).

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:02 pm

Can you just list like 3.60 instead of 3.608? Going all the way to 3.608 just seems desperate.

Icculus · Post by **Icculus** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:17 pm

dabbadon8 wrote:
luthersloan wrote:Yeah, it varies by school. I was told to round to nearest hundredth.

If the school says to round then round. At my school we were told to round to the hundreths but not to the tenths.

Myself · Post by **Myself** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:40 pm

5ky · Post by **5ky** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:15 pm

ajax adonis wrote:don't round up ever. You can truncate. But don't round up.

I did what the school told me to last year, which was round 3.X89 to 3.X9.

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