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Unread 30-11-2005, 21:14
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Re: 2006 FIRST Robotics Conference

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Originally Posted by Alekat
I am no college student but multiple people who've interviewed college graduates for jobs have told me that GPA isn't given too much more than a glance. I'm not saying sacrifice your grades for mentoring, but involving yourself in a FIRST team is far from a waste.
I've done prescreening (aka looking at resumes and determining who gets to talk to the actual recruiters) for Boeing a number of times at the career fair. We do look at GPA but in a very general sense. A GPA above a 3.0 is almost mandatory and above a 3.4 or 3.5 is very helpful. The key thing we look for, however, is excitement in Boeing and what it does. It's amazing how many people won't have a good answer for why they'd want to work for the company they're talking to.

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