Grades and airlines

[Minnesota_Flyer]

Like everything, it all depends, but I'd be surprised if it really made much difference to an airline what your grades were. In most cases, the HR folks will just be looking for a diploma to check the box and then move on. They ask for transcriptions (usually) just to make sure you actually graduated, probably not for grades. I could see a 1.5 GPA from Upstairs On-line College raising some eyebrows, but a 4.0 vs. a 2.9 GPA from a reputable school just isn't likely to make much of an impression with most employers.

Of course, there are always exceptions.

MF

[Doug Taylor]

I don't think they do, but it really doesn't matter because when you apply for your "dream job", they *might* and that'd really suck wouldn't it?

[Ophir]

My advice would be that if you are not ready to put in the effort for good grade then take some time off. Hopefully you will go back after figuring out that hard work pays off. And despite the system being flawed, grades do matter to most.

I went to college when I was 19. I wasn't ready. I quit after 2.5 years and a GPA of about 2.5. Now I'm back, about to finish, and my GPA is 3.9. It makes world of difference once you have had some real work experience. It also makes it harder to go back though.

[B767Driver]

Get good grades. But most of all...learn something. After years in school most students get proficient at test taking (learning what's on the test)...but don't know jack about the subject.

[ready2fly]

Originally Posted by tonyw

I can't speak about airlines, but I can speak about corporate America. And after your first or second job, nobody cares about what your GPA was. Hell, man, I can't recall mine. I couldn't tell you what my college GPA was if my life depended on it.

I just put down where I graduated from and that does the trick. Nobody cares what my GPA was.

I'm going to agree with Tony on this one.

I've been out of college for almost 16 years. I'm 40 and I find it VERY hard to believe that a regional will be asking me for my college transcript...then applying too much - if any - leverage to it.

Now, if I was fresh out of college? You bet they're going to look at your transcript. Why? Because that's the only meter by which they can measure you and what you've accomplished to that point in your life.

It's all relevant folks. If you're just out of college - be prepared to supply and talk about your grades. If you're like me and have been in the "real world" for a couple of decades or thereabouts - I wouldn't worry about it.

Could be wrong. Been known to miss a thing or two here or there.

R2F

[tonyw]

Originally Posted by flyover

If I were hiring I would require everybody to write a short essay. If it included spelling and grammar mistakes as above I would reject them regardless of their grades.

Here's a real world example of this. In one of my previous jobs, one of the first things I had to do was send out rejection cards to the people who I beat out for the job.

Everyone was required to send in a writing sample. When I saw some of the writing samples, I was thinking, sheesh, man, the competition wasn't that hard. The story about a million monkeys given enough time to type Shakespeare's works came to mind.

[Ophir]

SkyWest wanted mine, just like all the other applicants regardless of age. I don't know how much they look at them but I could imagine if they see a bunch of D's and F's they will take that into consideration.

[Alchemy]

At the regional level, yes my employer did ask for my college transcipt, but only after they had offered me the job.

I'll put it this way....if they had based their decision even slightly on my college GPA they wouldn't have hired me.

[alphaone]

Originally Posted by CaptainChris87

lol nah ill be honest I diddnt do as well as I thought in Meteorolgy I, which overall brought me down to a 3.333. Im a member of clubs (SAMA, and EAA) active, and I plan to get emplyment experience to compensate for that. Comp 110 is a 3 credit class which I got an A on haha, so nope not english.

Chris how many credit hours did you take?

[TXaviator]

Funny, thats almost EXACTLY my story as well.... went to school at 17, flunked out. Worked full time, crappy jobs, etc. Cleared my head, decided I had goals that needed accomplishing, and now I just finished a 4.0 semester at UND.

Amazing how much difference knowing what you want to do can make.

cheers.

Originally Posted by Ophir

My advice would be that if you are not ready to put in the effort for good grade then take some time off. Hopefully you will go back after figuring out that hard work pays off. And despite the system being flawed, grades do matter to most.

I went to college when I was 19. I wasn't ready. I quit after 2.5 years and a GPA of about 2.5. Now I'm back, about to finish, and my GPA is 3.9. It makes world of difference once you have had some real work experience. It also makes it harder to go back though.

[TXaviator]

Originally Posted by ready2fly

Now, if I was fresh out of college? You bet they're going to look at your transcript. Why? Because that's the only meter by which they can measure you and what you've accomplished to that point in your life.

HAHAHA!

Well then, the other applicants must not have accomplished much, and suddenly I am feeling quite secure with myself.

:-D

I've done PLENTY already. But I've got a lot more I'm adding all the time!