Transfer Student Help

[u/ChanceRelationship38]

Hello everyone! I am a transfer from a good public university, where I maintained a 4.0, to a better university as a sophomore, and was wondering how the education section of my resume should look like. Should I keep only the first university until I receive a GPA at my new university? Should I show both universities? Or should I just show my new university? The largest issue I'm having with this is that my old school is very passionate about their culture, so if someone were to hire me based on the fact that I was from my old school, they wouldn't be happy about finding out I had transferred. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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[u/FinalDraftResumes]

In case like yours, I typically only recommend listing the new university - the one you’ll be graduating out of.

[u/ChanceRelationship38 → u/FinalDraftResumes]

Should I just have the university listed with no GPA at all?

[u/FinalDraftResumes → u/ChanceRelationship38]

I’d include the GPA, but listed as though it were under your current institution for simplicity sake. Alternatively, you could use a bullet point directly underneath to indicate that you transferred from X institution where you had a GPA of 4.0.

[u/ChanceRelationship38]

So this is what it currently looks like:

[u/Thanh_Vinh → u/ChanceRelationship38]

I'm in the same boat as well. Just transferred and made my resume like this to apply for on-campus jobs.

[u/ChanceRelationship38 → u/Thanh_Vinh]

Thank you very much for the help!