Chemical engineers/ chemical engineering students, what is/was your gpa throughout college?

[u/Conscious-Use-2739]

I am an engineering student, about to enter my junior year of chem E. I am currently sitting at a 3.65, but I'm a little bit insecure about my gpa because i go to a really competitive school where everybody seems to have such a high gpa. it's really discouraging, but when i look online, I see posts saying anything above a 3.0 or 3.5 is acceptable/good. i really want to get a better idea of what's "normal", "good", or "great". Not here to judge anyone about their gpa's, just genuinely curious to see where I fall. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks! (P.S., sorry about any bad grammar, currently typing this in a rush since I'm studying for finals lol)

[u/Combfoot]

GPA is not always comparable between regions. Australia has a different marking and accreditation system, our pass mark for a university unit is 50%. But that 50% is as hard to achieve as the 70% pass mark of other regions.

So in general, all GPA from the aus region are going to be lower, because it doesn't account for this difference. ( at least not well, tend to also have things like lack of mark adjustments for class averages and other things that mess with the formula, so its not an easy 1:1 translation)

But the engineers Australia accreditation is equivalent to America through Washington accords, and shares equivalency with commonwealth nations (EA is equivalent to Canada engineers, UK, etc.) And most accreditation bodies.

But to answer the root question, my 'gpa' was low, I averaged 63% for my BChE which is a credit, and is pretty much average. In American GPA that would be 1.0? In a transformed average it could be considered 2.7 about, i think. But I had a mixed bag of unit marks, I had a number of units including my final year thesis as High distinctions (>80% mark) and then some units with crap and un-engaging lecturers, or when I had too many employment obligations, that I got 51%. I wasn't a consistent student.

I got a job offer as a regional project engineer within 1 week of graduating and was never and have never been asked for my GPA/university grade.

Demonstrate experience, skills, strengths and discuss what projects you did well and how you did them.

I've seen some companies screen out candidates using application portals and then having AI skim your transcripts. Honestly, my personal opinion, I wouldn't want to work at a place like that. Never bothered trying to get work that way, I'm not interested in putting in my professional effort to a company that doesn't consider what applicants have to offer.