There is a correlation between GPA and working hard. Yes there are awesome programmers who have terrible GPAs because they dropped out of high school to found

There is a correlation between GPA and working hard. Yes there are awesome programmers who have terrible GPAs because they dropped out of high school to found their own company, or who refused to do any non-programming subjects since kindergarten. But you want to hire somebody he has been working their hardest on everything they have been given to do - however uninteresting - since the age of 11.