Wondering if its the case.
I think the way this is worded will net you mostly positives. The reason for it is you’re asking people if their school and their GPA made them a better engineer. The only way to answer a negative is if you think, “I would have been a much better engineer if I had only gone to community college rather than MIT.” Essentially, there’s a cognitive bias where humans look at their past decisions and think of them as good decisions. If instead you phrased it such that you ask if engineers prefer working or hiring others that went to the best schools or have the highest GPAs because those hires are better engineers, you’ll receive less biased answers.
Some of the worst engineers I know went to great schools and had high GPA. They were just good at memorizing things. The real metric is problem solving skills.
^this
Unfortunately, GPA is not an indicative of smartness. There are schools where one can finish one’s degree by taking easy courses and consolidating a good GPA. So, if I were a recruiter, I would be skeptical around people with a perfect 4.0 from a good university. My money would be on students who had the guts to take difficult courses at the cost of their gpa.
Good point, its hard to tell the difficulty of the courses tho.
Interesting point. Similar for double majors or does that not count? I was a double stem major with a very bad GPA but i finished everything while having awesome extracurriculars
Clearly not for you. (English) Grammar and spelling should be high on the list of qualifications.
How come a word I mistyped could make you feel so superior?
I beg to differ. Unless you are applying for the role of English professor, grammar doesn’t mean shit. I have people in my team who can’t spell “grammar” but are still hired because they are excellent at what they do. So, please don’t be a grammar nazi next time you want to berate someone.