GPA (1 Viewer)

[Cujo10]

Is GPA important?

 

[lilgsmith10]

Yeah - most interviewers will ask you for it when you apply for a job... You need a good one otherwise you're skrewed

 

[Jolteon]

Tbh depends what you're studying - I'm in health and they prioritise your practical experience over your WAM/GPA and usually clinical internships/placements are integrated within the degree.

However, I know for certain degrees in STEM or commerce, WAM/GPA is taken into account when you are applying for internships and since you should be graduating with at least one internship under your belt in your penultimate/ultimate years, then in that case, your WAM will play a role.
Again, in the end, your work experience, extra-curriculars or any leadership experiences throughout uni will most likely take priority over your grades.

 

[dasfas]

Tbh depends what you're studying - I'm in health and they prioritise your practical experience over your WAM/GPA and usually clinical internships/placements are integrated within the degree.

However, I know for certain degrees in STEM or commerce, WAM/GPA is taken into account when you are applying for internships and since you should be graduating with at least one internship under your belt in your penultimate/ultimate years, then in that case, your WAM will play a role.
Again, in the end, your work experience, extra-curriculars or any leadership experiences throughout uni will most likely take priority over your grades.

Do you have any tips for applying for internships in health? I'm a first year b science student

 

[pikachu975]

Tbh depends what you're studying - I'm in health and they prioritise your practical experience over your WAM/GPA and usually clinical internships/placements are integrated within the degree.

However, I know for certain degrees in STEM or commerce, WAM/GPA is taken into account when you are applying for internships and since you should be graduating with at least one internship under your belt in your penultimate/ultimate years, then in that case, your WAM will play a role.
Again, in the end, your work experience, extra-curriculars or any leadership experiences throughout uni will most likely take priority over your grades.

Yeah agree with this, usually depends on the degree. If your WAM/GPA is low you have to make up for it in some other way i.e. experience/extracurriculars etc - if your WAM/GPA is low and you have no experience, the employer will be like, why would I hire this person? They can just hire someone else that they know will be able to do the technical side of the work (high WAM/GPA) or someone who already has experience in the workforce/field (good experience).

Although a lot of people still get a graduate job without internships - internships are relatively hard to get since there's minimal and a lot of competition.

 

[Cujo10]

Is it possible to convert your GPA to ATAR?

 

[dasfas]

Is it possible to convert your GPA to ATAR?

Nope, they're completely unrelated. A 4.0 is probably 99.75+ and 70 ATAR is whatever the average GPA is. Outside of that, it's too unbalanced since atar scales whereas gpa doesn't and a 74 ie. Credit is very different to a 75 distinction for GPA whereas for ATAR it has very little effect

 

[dasfas]

Not sure about GPA's here, but a 4.0 GPA in the US is probably like a 90 ATAR lol.

Yeah, australia makes more harshly than usa (well at my uni at any rate, i'm sure the grading is wildly different between unis)