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GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:35 pm
by Ambitious Joe
I have a 3.47 GPA... can/should I round it to 3.5 for OCI's?

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:37 pm
by UndecidedMN
Ambitious Joe wrote:I have a 3.47 GPA... can/should I round it to 3.5 for OCI's?

No. Its 3.47

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:54 pm
by rinkrat19
Does your school not give you three digits after the decimal?

You definitely can't round to 1 digit after the decimal. And I actually thought you were supposed to leave all 3.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:55 pm
by DavidConeSplitter
Wow Joe you really are ambitious.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:56 pm
by chuckbass
You can't be serious OP...

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:59 pm
by KMart
DavidConeSplitter wrote:Wow Joe you really are ambitious.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:03 pm
by Ambitious Joe
Thanks. My school didn't provide any information on the matter.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:04 pm
by KMart
Ambitious Joe wrote:Thanks. My school didn't provide any information on the matter.
I don't think you need any to know you can't say you have a 3.5 when you have below a 3.5.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:08 pm
by pancakes3
fwiw, the difference between a 3.47 and a 3.5 is a half-letter bump for a 3 credit class (over 30 credits).

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:12 pm
by Clearly
hahahaha Why stop there!

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:19 pm
by DavidConeSplitter
I'm gonna round up my "constant shitposting on tls" to "I go to law school" when OCI comes around

DFTHREAD

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:19 pm
by Desert Fox
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Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:21 pm
by pancakes3
Desert Fox wrote:In the real non legal world you could say 3.5, but 3.50 is lying in any case. Because you don't found .47 to .50. You round, at least, one less digit. So 3.5.
Significant post.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:04 pm
by Anonymous User
not OP but what about rounding thousandths to the nearest hundredth? I was planning to round X.X28 -> X.X3, is that not kosher either?

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:10 pm
by whats an updog
Anonymous User wrote:not OP but what about rounding thousandths to the nearest hundredth? I was planning to round X.X28 -> X.X3, is that not kosher either?
Was told by my career services rounding to two digits after the decimal is fine. e.g. 3.507 = 3.51

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:47 pm
by Anonymous User
So you can 3.094 to 3.1? Cuz that sounds a hell lot better. Or does that round down to 3.09 because it's a 4 and below lol.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:49 pm
by hartfordhockaloogies
Just round the 3.5 to 4.0 while you're at it

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:53 pm
by rinkrat19
Anonymous User wrote:So you can 3.094 to 3.1? Cuz that sounds a hell lot better. Or does that round down to 3.09 because it's a 4 and below lol.
That would round down to 3.09, so you should probably keep it 3 digits.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:47 am
by Anonymous User
What about rounding 3.492 to "about 3.5" if an interviewer asks?

(I get that you're supposed to round down, I'm hoping that estimating up is still fine.)

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:00 am
by PoopNpants
Gooooooooooo JOE!

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:37 am
by chuckbass
Anonymous User wrote:What about rounding 3.492 to "about 3.5" if an interviewer asks?

(I get that you're supposed to round down, I'm hoping that estimating up is still fine.)
No. You have a 3.49.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:50 am
by rinkrat19
Anonymous User wrote:What about rounding 3.492 to "about 3.5" if an interviewer asks?

(I get that you're supposed to round down, I'm hoping that estimating up is still fine.)
I get that math is hard for law students, but you don't get to misrepresent your gpa. You have a 3.492 or a 3.49.

Re: GPA Rounding

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:08 pm
by chuckbass
rinkrat19 wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:What about rounding 3.492 to "about 3.5" if an interviewer asks?

(I get that you're supposed to round down, I'm hoping that estimating up is still fine.)
I get that math is hard for law students, but you don't get to misrepresent your gpa. You have a 3.492 or a 3.49.
Also your resume will be in front of the interviewer so I wouldn't lie when they can just look down and see what you're doing...