GPA Resume Advice

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Hello! I am about to graduate nursing school and need some advice/opinion on my resume GPA for job searches. I will be graduating with a 3.797. Would it be wrong for me to round to the nearest hundredth and put my GPA as a 3.8? I'm off by .003! I'm not sure what the proper protocol/etiquette is. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

It would be fine to round to 3.8. Your potential employers are not going to call your school and check your GPA that closely unless they want to offer you a job. And if they go want to offer you a job, they aren't going to care about a .003 difference.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

In my organization, HR does check transcripts & GPA for new grads because our new grad programs have a specific GPA requirement - so they need to verify. Rounding off to a 3.8 is perfectly OK.

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should we be listing our cumulative GPA or nursing school GPA only? I'm worried now because I've been writing magna cum laude - overall GPA, rather than my nursing GPA. I don't want to come across as misleading in my resume...

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

Listing your cumulative GPA is fine, provided that your nursing school grades are included in that. For students who take pre-requistites at the same time as nursing courses, they only have a cumulative GPA, not a separate one for just nursing courses.

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thank you!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

With a 3.797, go ahead and round to 3.80. If you had a 3.793, I would say keep it at 3.79. Make sense?

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