As title suggests this is what happened. I am CS senior graduating in May. Went to a career fair, guy invited me to interview the next day. This is a non traditional CS job, a power plant with mostly blue collar workers and engineers in offices(applied for this). I got asked about GPA, I said 3.2, but it's 2.6. I said this as I was caught off guard and didn't think I would get the second round interview if I mentioned the low gpa. I got invited for second round, and HR asking for unofficial transcript. Honestly, I don't think I want this job, doing it to practice interviewing as this is my first “real job” interview, to practice negotiation, and to see what kind of salary they will offer – I suspect 60-70k. This way I am prepared when I interview for tech companies I want to work in. So I guess here are my options:
- Send real transcript and hope for the best.
- “Correct” my transcript to match what I said
- Send the transcript and if they ask about it, say that my major gpa is 3.2(even tough it's not).
I know what I did is not ethical, – can't change the past. Heard horror stories of lying about gpa biting people later on- don't want to go through this lol. Where to go from here – can I get screwed?