>>”I am more impressed with someone who had a 3.0 GPA who financed their education by working through college, than someone who lived on loans and got a 4.0.”
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> dfw! I’m kind of surprised you’d make such a blanket statement!
> Would you hire a 3.0 student over her, just because she didn’t have to work to pay her way?
If I may, it seems dfwgator’s point was that the ability to intelligently [self-]finance (and motivate) outweighs the rating-number in real-life.
” the ability to intelligently [self-]finance (and motivate) outweighs the rating-number in real-life.”
Well,,,, I do agree with that, but not quite completely. She didn’t need to self-finance, because she was highly self[motivated. But, then again, she is an exception from the norm.