Did Your NP School GPA Matter?

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  1. What was your NP school GPA?

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      3.9 or higher
    • 3
      3.7-3.89
    • 0
      3.5-3.69
    • 2
      Less than 3.5

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Hello All,

I am currently an ACNP student at a top ranked university; I am also a long time ICU nurse. I've been giving my classes and clinicals my all. Although I try to not overstress, I can't help but beat myself up if I make anything short of an A+ on a paper or exam.

To all you practicing NPs out there, did your NP school GPA matter in the long run? Has it ever been brought up during job interviews?

Thanks in advance.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Nope - my GPA was about 3.87 but who cares?

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Well, you know what they called the guy that graduated last in his class in NP school.....

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

Not in the long run but honors are things you can have on your CV and employers will see that when you apply. I didn't have a 4.0 (close to it) but I have co-workers who did and it doesn't make a difference in promotion and performance at this point.

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A super high GPA looks nice when you're Sigma Theta Tau and you're graduating in your nice gown with your cords and sashes. But after the graduation ceremony, no one cares. At all.

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.

The only profession I've encountered where anybody cared about GPA was accounting. The Big 4 and others want 4.0 grads or pretty close to it. In engineering, they consider it excellent to actually pass, and in medicine when have you seen a report card hung on the doctor's wall? I don't think GPA matters to most on any external level. The BSN and nursing, for me, was a later bachelor's degree and occupation. I joined the Sigma Theta Tau nonsense because I thought it might matter. It didn't. Never even came up. I spoke of it in an interview once, and the interviewer/CNO had never heard of it, lol. I never renewed obviously. Frankly, I have more autonomy, income, and career satifaction than the highest ranked invidual in my NP training.

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).

I had a 3.33 and I am working for a bigger organization

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