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The best advice I can offer you is to RELAX. You still have half your college experience left! see if you can enjoy it. Remember, we're in a pandemic, and everyone is going through some stuff. If it comes up in your interviews - which I doubt it will - just be like Covid was a really tough time for me, and I'm glad to have moved past it. BTW, your grades are fine. You'll get a job. It may not be at the place you want right off the bat, but it's good enough to get you an opportunity. And don't stress about the clubs. Those don't get you jobs or opportunities - seriously no one in the real world cares one bit about clubs. You know what matters, is the friends you make along the way. They get you opportunities. So not to be trite, but chill. It's going to work out.
Anything over a 3 is fine. GPA is a checkbox not a differentiator. Focus the conversation on your activities, interests, goals, hobbies, leadership or other experiences instead. Coming from the recruitment side, talking about school and GPA is boring for me.
I have been an interviewer for both IBM and Accenture.
The GPA we look for is typically 3.0 (might vary if you are applying for a particular role). It is nothing but a bar to clear for us, and even then, I have let interesting candidates below that bar through to the next round.
l am mainly interested to see if someone has worked 5 - 10 hours a week during the school year. It doesn’t matter what the job is, you can be a bartender, a waiter or a computer programmer. What we care about is you working during the school year.
In terms of activities, you should have one or two activities, especially if they show growth and a leadership position. But in the end, I am not going to be impressed if you have five clubs on your resume. My first interview question to someone with a job and four clubs/volunteer activities has been “What do you do for fun? How do you relax?”
In the end, what I am really interested in is finding out about what motivates YOU. Why are you interested in consulting as a career? What other types of careers are you interested in?
I’m in public accounting (Big 4) and had a 3.1 when I landed an internship and a 3.3 when I graduated. GPA isn’t everything. If you can demonstrate you’re doing more than just classes (student orgs, etc.) they can look past if you have leadership/project management/relevant stories to tell about your experiences.
I had a <2.5 GPA 😅
Also, while you’re at it, advocate for yourself. Request disability accommodations whether you need them now or not. It’ll give you a little breathing room. While working on my BS, I made it through fine. I graduated at the top of my class. I’ve dealt with mental illness all of my life, when I started working on my PhD, I had significant struggles to overcome. My grades started to slip. I requested accommodations. It was probably just that act that saved the rest of my academic career.
Hi OP, I'm a consultant at Big4 and just wanted to provide a little life advice/support if you're interested. Echoing M1, make sure you're making an effort to relax! As it is with most stages of life, things that seem CRITICAL to you right now diminish in importance with time. Once you get your first job out of college you don't even need to put your GPA on your resume. I also just wanted to say that the fact that you're getting and staying with professional help is the absolute most important thing! I can tell you from personal experience that if I had done that when I first needed it in college, my career would be in a much better place than it is now. So, you've already done the most important thing, just stick with it and take some time to relax and enjoy the ride! Hope this helps :)
I'm an MD at Accenture who had a 3.2 GPA at a tier 2 school. Once you're in, your college grades and experience don't matter - your career progression is driven by the merits of your job.
As far as interviewing, the most important thing is showing your well-roundedness and hunger to learn and grow.
Hey, 3.4 from UIC here. What helped me to get where I wanted was joining research labs and the honor school - requirements for each are lower than you think.
If you're thinking grad school/mba, many of those literally only look at junior/senior years.
Don’t overthink this stuff. Everybody has doubts; don’t let the self-talk bring you down. Have confidence and be yourself. Lastly, pray. You got this.
And you should be prepared to address the elephant in the room and be honest about your mental health. What was a negative stigma yesterday is more common in the world we live in today. My daughter is a high school senior struggling with ADHD and was very open in college applications about her struggles and how that impacted her GPA but followed up with how she took the initiative to face it head on. She has already a couple of great admissions, including a generous merit scholarship. I believe if you are asked, be willing to share your story which will say a lot about your character. And character trumps GPA in companies worth your time and energy.