Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Does GPA matter in the real world?

Are you looking for comfort, some kind of reassurance that your college GPA won’t mean anything, and won’t affect your employability? Would you like to relieve some guilt feelings, that you goofed off and lazied around and gave yourself excuses for not studying or doing homework, and so got mediocre or poor grades?

The actual fact is that your college GPA is in fact, extremely important, for the rest of your life. Not the actual digits but on a larger scale. Unless it is distinctively outstanding, then it will be immediately noted with approval by a major section of the interviewing panel. Your college GPA shows how intricately you have applied your knowledge. It shows your diligence, your seriousness of purpose, your willingness to fulfill a lengthy task on your own, and your commitment to excellence. 

The GPA is quite an accurate meter of all of that. People with a mediocre or low GPA demonstrate that they have a low level of intelligence, or else that they do not apply their intelligence well. They show that they have not learned very much, and did not learn basic material which was necessary to learn things that were more advanced and complex. The GPA quite accurately illustrates how diligent and persevering a person has been, over period of years in a fairly wide range of tasks and situations. And it certainly shows one’s dedication to achieving excellence in accomplishing the work at hand.

Your GPA says more than you can imagine about you as a person, and your potential and your appeal as an employee. More important, for your life, is what your GPA should tell you about yourself. If the number is and remains high from one term to the next, then you are doing and accomplishing what you should. If your GPA is unimpressive, then you have serious faults or deficiencies that need to be corrected. Otherwise, those flaws will either prevent you from getting a desirable job, or they will lead you to fail in that job — hence, limited or no salary advancement, and no promotions or progress in your career.

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