I really hate the catch-22 that this sort of thinking puts applicants into - just like the "I would never hire anybody who had a degree or who had a certificati

I really hate the catch-22 that this sort of thinking puts applicants into - just like the "I would never hire anybody who had a degree or who had a certification" assertion you see on here so often. Since you're just as likely (if not more likely) to find somebody who's going to pass over you or weight you negatively for NOT including your GPA (on the assumption that you're not including it because you have something to hide), applicants are in a difficult position of trying to gauge whether or not they're facing somebody who weighs certain accomplishments _negatively_. Ignoring a credential is one thing, but counting it against somebody strikes me more as sour grapes.