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Universities like UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley have a predefined GPA criteria that doesn't change with deadline. In other words, irrespective of the date you apply on, the criteria of having a GPA> 9.0/10 remains as it is. On the other hand, some universities may change the criteria based on the GPA of the applicants they receive to filter out the best. Generally, the GPA cut off is reduced as the deadline approaches, but this happens only if they have the capacity to enroll extra students.Currently, due to covid-19, many universities have waived off their criteria of higher GRE scores and GPA as well. So its comparatively easy to get admission.I hope this helps.

Yes, it’s tougher to get a job as a fresher in Germany, when compared to countries where you can be fired at a moment’s notice for no reason, be left without a source of income while you try and get back on your feet, struggle substantially more if you get sick, and then get thrown out of the country in a few more months (after spending years/decades there) because your visa depends on your job.So yes, it is tougher. But there are reasons for it, and at the end, the question for me was more — is it worth the effort?“Getting a job for a freshers in Germany after an MS is difficult.”I’ll be answering the question based on those 3 keywords — Fresher, Difficult, and Germany.FRESHERSImagine that you own a company.Do you want to spend time teaching a new employee how to get things done right, when you have the option of taking an employee who has the required knowledge already?Yes, in the long run, the new employee might learn more and perform even better than the one with experience.But the new employee might be a complete failure as well. You need profits in the short term, and there is no guarantee in the long run of the new employee being more successful than the one with experience.What do you do?In most cases, you shall decide to take the experienced employee, and at least make a profit right now. After all, a bird in hand is better than two in the bush, yeah?ImageBut what happens in —Industries in which there ARE no employees with enough experience? What do you do then?You lower your experience criteria.You lower it again.You keep lowering it, till you reach the criteria where you get the employee with the experience level you need. If there is still a shortage of employees, you take in a fresher, and hope he/she works out.Cases where you already know that you are going to work on something completely new, and the older generation doesn’t want/is not capable to learn those new technologies? Or they would need waaaay more time to learn those technologies than a kid would?You start at the bottom itself, hoping that the kids in this new generation would soon have enough experience to make your time/money worth it.You take someone with similar skills/experience, and hope that the this new generation would soon have enough experience to make your time/money worth it.Situations where it is simply not worth the payment to an older employee?Older employees have the benefit of experience, and hence can charge for it more than a fresher. But there is often regulatory work that, though simple enough, needs to be done. Paying an older employee for something simple that a fresher can do with little/no training is just a wastage of money and time. So, and this being the most common, the employers end up taking a fresher/student, and paying them a little money for their time. The student/fresher gets money+experience, the employer saves money, and his more experienced employees can work on projects of higher complexity.Now, all of this above is true in every country and every economy.So why is Germany typically more difficult for freshers than other countries?DIFFICULTYDifficult, as compared to what?TL;DR — Demand and supply; difficulty is relative.“Difficulty” of finding a job depends on many factors. Difficulty in living, work environment, anything, is always subjective.I know a few students who were brilliant/lucky/hard-working enough to get a job right after their studies. I know a few who had to wait for months (I do not yet know anyone who had to go back to their native country as they did not find a job. But to be fair, I only know STEM students.)Having said that, a job search in Germany without experience is difficult on a near universal barometer for the following groups of people:Students from rich countriesStudents from poor countriesStudents from middle income countriesGerman nationalsNon-German EU nationalsNon-EU nationalsA potatoAs you can clearly see, life is tough here for someone without any experience.Tough, but not impossible.Most universities offer a chance to get at least some sort of experience while you’re studying, be it in the form of internships, thesis, or simply excursions or project work. Also, most universities partner together with companies to give student jobs, and Germany has a strong culture of students working in the industry.But even if you do all of this, it might not be easy to find a job. Once again, it all depends. For example:It’s easier for students in STEM courses to find a job without experience than for those in art courses.In STEM courses also, it is (marginally and currently) easier for computer science engineers without experience to find a job more than for mechanical engineers (even though it’s Germany, the world right now needs far more coders than other engineers) or even electronics engineers.It is still easier for mechanical engineers than for civil ones.It is still easier for civil students than architecture ones.Architecture students are in huge demand when you compare them to literature students.But there are also hidden sub-sects.For example:Among mechanical engineers, it is easier to find jobs for production engineers than for simulation engineers (in my humble and small experience).It is generally a bit easier for females than males, because companies want ideally 50% ratios, and those are not yet fulfilled by many companies (due to historical/social factors outside the scope of this answer).It is easier for students with more knowledge of German than those without, as most small/mid scale companies only work in German internally.It is a little easier for German/EU nationals — which has nothing to do with racism. If you, as an employer, is getting 2 freshers with the exact same theoretical background, then why would you want to go deal with visa issues unnecessarily? (Do NOT waste my time commenting about how unfair this is. It’s how the world works. Either deal with it, or don’t move outside your own awesome country).It is also easier for students with higher grades to get a job without experience than the ones with lower.It is easier for students living in bigger/more industrial states than for those in poorer/smaller states.It is also much harder for students without luck to find jobs, than it is for students who have luck on their side.Here’s my point:Even in your own country, it might be tough to find work for certain fields, from certain universities, for certain grades. As a foreigner, you might have to deal with language/visa issues in Germany, as you would in most other countries on the planet. But remember, you’re voluntarily signing up for such issues when you decide to come here for an education.Please try and have a positive attitude, not to worry too much, and especially not to cry in public.Let’s now move on to the bigger question, and the complete answer to the question asked.WHY IN THE HELL IS IT SO DIFFICULT FOR FRESHERS TO FIND JOBS IN GERMANY?!!GERMANYTL;DR — Jobs in Germany are generally harder to get without experience due to the high risk the companies have to take in taking an employee.You are coming to Germany only because of it’s above-average work-life balance. Nearly everyone works a maximum of 40 hours a week. In bigger companies (like mine), we work just 35 hours a week, and get 30 holidays a year — whenever I want, without any questions being asked.And mind you, these 30 days do not include sick days (the logic, as an HR once told me — If I am sick, I am not enjoying. If I am not enjoying, I am not having a holiday. If I am not having a holiday, it is not going to be counted as a holiday). If I am sick, I get full payment anyway, and due to universal health insurance, don’t spend the rest of my life in debt.If I work more than my required 35 hours, I get paid more, or need to take those hours off work later. This is barely ever true in developing nations, or even in developed nations (like the USA).Read that again — I NEED to take days off work. If I don’t by the year end, they shall “force” me to go sit at home.But more than that, every job in Germany is highly secure. An employer in the US can fire you at any time without giving a reason. An employer in Germany can not. They can’t even fire you if the reason is not good enough. And no, not good enough for the employer — good enough for the courts. Be assured, “We don’t like her attitude towards work” or “He didn’t do something as efficiently as we hope from our employees” are not reasons good enough. The employers are given the first 6 months (or whatever the contract states) to make that decision without consequences. After that, it’s not going to be as easy anymore.Even a justifiable reason like “He was sick for months and months and we were forced to find a replacement and that replacement is twice more efficient and binds well with the team” isn’t going to cut it.Once you have a contract, essentially no employer is going to break it for any reason that is not universally bad (E.g.: stealing, sexual assault, conspiracy against the nation etc.)On top of that, if you lose your job in Germany after working here for a few years (company shut down, you got too sick to work, you wanted to change fields and switch to a new job), you still get enough money monthly to live (and even go out and have a few beers every now and then).See, here’s the thing: You’re not the first one on the planet to get the brilliant idea: I should spend lesser time at work and get paid more for it, while having universal medical insurance, job security, and decent monthly income even if I can’t go to work!END THOUGHTSI skipped the “after MS” part for this answer, as there is just one thing to know about it. After MS in Germany, you get a lot more options and nearly everything is easier as compared to doing an MS in some other part of Europe/World, and then trying to get the jobs/benefits of the German lifestyle and work culture. Everything that you do in Germany counts more than if you do that outside somewhere, and you might save years of hard work just because you have a degree from a German university.If there are lesser people than needed in your field, or if your field is easier and lesser challenging than others (subjective), then you have a better chance to get into the industry as a fresher.Otherwise, get experience, even if it’s just through internships or projects, rather than from a full time employment before you come to Germany (which is a path I recommend more than the others).It might help you jump the queue.SourceI’ve also made a video about this to help students get more answers. You can see it below, or on YouTube at “Admission, Job and Life in Germany”

If you have joined SRM Institute of Science and Technology in 2015 or later, you would know that our grading system was changed in 2015. Naturally, most of us weren’t aware of this change when we joined. When we came to this university, we expected to get placed in a good company or go for higher studies in a reputed university after 4 years.Unfortunately, our beloved university doesn’t seem to care about our futures and careers as indicated by the change in regulations in 2015 from the 2013 regulations. The regulation was probably changed as they wanted to reduce the no. of students sitting in placements so they get a better placement percentage. If 700 sit in placements and 400 are selected, they’ll only have a placement percentage of around 57%. But if only 500 qualify for placements and 400 get selected, then the percentage increases to 80%. This way they can sell this percentage in newspapers, magazines and on social media to attract students. They’ve already increased the no. of seats in most branches since 2015 and they’ll keep doing it as is evident by their construction of more campuses and expanding their current campuses. This university has become just a money-making business and no attention is paid to the education and the future of the students. They don’t want to decrease the no. of admissions per year and simultaneously it is not possible for them to get all the students placed on campus, so they’ve invented this system to put the blame on us when ultimately we don’t get placed. They’ll say that it was our fault that we couldn’t even clear the eligibility criteria for campus placements. Off-campus placement would be nigh impossible since no company would consider applicants with such low scores. In a nutshell, they’re extorting moneyfrom you and exploiting your life without a slight care in the world. If you can’t grasp the absurdity of this, let me give you a simple example. If you aggregate 84/100 at the end of the semester, you’d have gotten 9 GP by the 2013 regulations. Now the same amount of marks will get you only 7 GP. So, you study hard to aggregate 84/100 all semester and they give you a 7 GP out of a maximum 10. And students from other universities will get 7 GP even when they get 60/100. So, when you sit for placements or give your documents to universities for MS programs, they’ll evaluate you according to the prevalent grading system that is in most universities in India, not according to this unique system.The funny thing here is that SRM writes in the regulations that this is the grading system recommended by the UGC, which is absolutely false.