GPA’s mean jack shit these days anyway. Super smart kids who nolifed through college or were so heavily funded by rich parents that they had personal tutors and zero life stress to focus on a 4.0 are now common, but aren’t enough for the limited number of poorly paying entry level positions. The bar has moved up to graduating experience; if you didn’t get one, ideally two summer or 6-month internships during your bachelor’s you might as well just go jump off a bridge now.
I managed to squeeze myself into a full time job directly from an intership because it was with a locally based company that I was able to intern for while going to school, but maybe 50% of my graduating class still has OpenToWork on their linkedin’s a full year down now…
GPA’s mean jack shit these days anyway. Super smart kids who nolifed through college or were so heavily funded by rich parents that they had personal tutors and zero life stress to focus on a 4.0 are now common, but aren’t enough for the limited number of poorly paying entry level positions. The bar has moved up to graduating experience; if you didn’t get one, ideally two summer or 6-month internships during your bachelor’s you might as well just go jump off a bridge now.
I managed to squeeze myself into a full time job directly from an intership because it was with a locally based company that I was able to intern for while going to school, but maybe 50% of my graduating class still has OpenToWork on their linkedin’s a full year down now…