Getting a good CGPA is pain you know. Attend classes (no proxies), take notes, make presentations, and class participation, study. Sacrifice sleep, frequent eat-out, parties, free-riding etc. Why shouldn’t it form part of your resume for final placements? After all, committee selection is done by seniors, the rookie HRs. Win contests, well, one elusive cherry for the majority. In the end, acads is one area where rewards are commensurate with efforts. Good CG reveals a lot of positive aspects about a person- commitment, desire to excel, hard work, consistency etc.
Does good CG guarantee jobs? I don’t know. It definitely is important for shortlists to good companies and decider for marginally better ones. Converting is your talent.
Disclosing to select companies doesn’t make sense. If 8+ CGs can tilt the balance in slot 0 companies, 7+ CGs tilt in slot 1, 6.5+ CGs in slot 2 and so on, ceteris paribus. How do you know when anything can become critical? Why should a bunch of cool-dudes stop loser-muggus from getting even a tiny edge? I’m not passing any judgments on low graders, for the moment, let’s talk evidence.
IIM doesn’t select its students by first-cum-first-serve basis, does it? In fact IIM-A, the goliath wants consistently great acads for final selection even if you clear one of the toughest competitive exams on earth. Personality and interpersonal skills can wait. Merit is the raw material.
It’s not as if people didn’t know the importance of CGPA. The fact that this will happen was told by Profs right at induction. It can be argued that a relative grading system ensures that someone will get 4 no matter what. But a person cannot screw up all courses if he works, he has only himself to blame otherwise.
If disclosing CG means multiple offers and possibility of entire batch not getting placed in record time, so be it. No one should assume that admission to any institution, even an IIM, guarantees success.
PS: I don’t have a great CG, only a disclose-able one.
