Jul 7, 2008

You made the grade... but can you find it?

Quick, what was your ACT score? How about your high school GPA? In which percentile of your class did you graduate? How about your college GPA/class percentile? And finally, how many credits did you have when you graduated from all of the schools from which you obtained a diploma?

I'm currently trying to track down all of this information for a job application. It absolutely boggles my mind that over 20 years after I graduated I'm being asked about anything I did in high school, but the statistics of it all are particularly troublesome for me. Being mathematically challenged, I don't process things numerically and frankly never have. That said, there's a pretty good chance I never "knew" the information being requested. Or at least never remembered it longer than the time it took to write it on a couple college applications.

Hmm, now that I think about it maybe that accounting job isn't for me after all...

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