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/Brochachotrips3]

I got a 2.7 which is the minimum I needed to graduate. 6 years later I'm making six figures and working remotely.  GPA doesn't mean anything. It may help getting your first job, but aside from that no one cares.

[u/RagePlaysGames_YT → u/Brochachotrips3]

I am in the same boat. Graduated with a 2.95, already had a job offer signed before leaving college, 6 years later I make six figures working fully remote leading 2 teams of engineers.

Being charismatic & being willing to “play the game” with office politics has gotten me further in my career than high GPAs have gotten any of my engineer friends.

[u/Existing_Sympathy_73 → u/RagePlaysGames_YT]

Can you share some tips? Asking seriously. I did not go into engineering because i liked politics, but it is coming down to that

[u/RagePlaysGames_YT → u/Existing_Sympathy_73]

For office politics the most important thing I realized was the quantity of work you do is almost meaningless & its just the visibility that matters. You could spend all day doing amazing work at 3x the speed of other people, but if nobody higher up knows about it it's pointless. Actively pushing to be on high visibility projects that are business critical and then trying to be the face of those is huge. An easy way to do this is to get good at public speaking & be willing to present... most engineers either a) suck a public speaking/presenting, b) hate public speaking/presenting, or c) both. If YOU are the one telling upper management about how a problem was fixed & you just saved the business x amount of time/money, you will be associated with that fix even if it wasn't just you who did it (obviously not fair, but thats how the cookie crumbles i guess).

Other than that a general rule I always go by is "Treat everyone like a human being". That may sound dumb and super simple, but every time i see people speaking to Directors/VPs/SVPs/C Suite members they are always so rigid and formal and awkward... at the end of the day those people are just people and like to talk about the same things as everyone else. I have made tons of great friendly personal relationships with upper management by talking to them like normal people & used those relationships to easily leapfrog my career (4 promotions from a level 2 engineer to managing 2 teams in under 4 years).

Not sure if any of this will be useful or if I'm just saying stuff you & everyone else already knows, but regardless i wish you the best of luck!!!