How important is GPA in my college experience?

How important is GPA in my college experience?

Many students tend to focus almost exclusively on their grade point average, and get very anxious about making sure their grade point average is as high as it possibly can be. To a degree, I must say that is correct. It's very important to have a high GPA if one is going to apply for certain kinds of scholarships, to apply for certain types of jobs after graduation, and certainly to go to graduate school, a high GPA is very important. I have to always balance that by saying we are not only our GPA in college; there are a lot more things that you can learn, and a lot more things that students do that means it takes time away from study, and time away from study sometimes correlates to a slightly lower GPA, but what you learn from that time away from and out of college can many times be just as beneficial. So if you're spending some time at a job, as well as being involved in a club or an organization, if your GPA is a high B average, a 3.5, a 3.7, and you have a lot of involvement and leadership as well as a part time job that's related to your major, I would say that you would still be a very attractive candidate to a graduate school and certainly to an employer.