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I think I’m getting rejected from jobs due to my grades but how am I supposed to explain that I was SA my freshman year and in a relationship with someone in active addiction my sophomore- senior year 😀
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Anonymous 11w

Take your GPA off your resume, join clubs

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Anonymous 11w

Lowkey I’m going through the same thing, my dad SA’d me during my freshman and sophomore year so I moved and transferred out of state, idk how to explain all that, people still think I moved to party.

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Anonymous 11w

What kinda jobs are you applying to?

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Anonymous 11w

How do you know it’s because of your grades?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Conservation (my degree is in bio)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Maybe you can describe more about experience you have to compensate for lower gpa?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Unfortunately I do not have experience because I spent my entire college career thinking I was gonna go to dental school 🤩

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

def describe ur experience as much as u can

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

If you don’t have experience in conservation specifically that’s fine, but you can talk about strength in anything else you did, like any of the things you did while you were pre-dental.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

if anyone asks yall can say that u moved because u liked the program more

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11w

They “think” they don’t know

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