I heard a radio news piece the other day that company recruiters are asking
about SAT scores to applicants 5, 10 even 15 years after college.

Les

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Hey guys it's me again.

How big of a factor is GPA in getting a good aerospace job at a cool
company? The line "...Do good in school" is always given in advice
when I was growing up. To tell the truth I was holding a decent
3.3gpa untill I hit my math sequence at college. Now I have no more
'breeze' classes (history etc) to prop up my gpa and it's killing me.
I'm problobly around a 2.3 now.

This really bums me out. I went into Aerospace cause I wanted the job
of my dreams designing aircraft. Nobodys gona hire a medocree looser
that doesn't excell in math.

So how Important is a good GPA when looking for a job?

Picture the scene: You are a recruiter for Boeing or Lockmart. In front of
you, you have a stack of 600 almost identical resumes, most of them using
the MS Word 'Resume' template. You have 5 positions to fill. Why would you
even bother with a 2.3GPA when the other 500 applications have a minimum
3.0? You can be as enthusiastic as you want, but with that number on, your
resume is going straight in the trash.

Frankly speaking, if you have a 2.3GPA you are not trying your hardest and
you know it. I suspect that, like me, you were one of the kids who coasted
through School on your native intelligence, and now the field has narrowed
you suddenly find that's not good enough. If you want your dream, pick
your
ass up and start putting some serious work in instead of looking for
hand-holding on usenet.

Matt