Career Advice About Notion

Does anyone have any insights on how much better their application to interview rate was after having an internship on their resume?

I currently only have unpaid startup experience and i got 5/100 interviews this cycle, but it felt extremely luck based and easily couldve been 0/100.

I'm about to do a SWE internship at Notion and wondering if things genuinely become way easier (assume I'm able to write about real impact I made at Notion).

I realized that my GPA had absolutely no bearing on whether I got interviews or not. I currently have a 3.5 but I don't include it on my resume. I maintain a full scholarship as long as I have over a 3.0... so then doesn't that beg the question, what even is the point of getting As?

I already don't go to any lectures and I maximize my efficiency by using the urgency of doing assignments and studying for exams last minute.

Then if I already have, let's say a 95%, if the final project is worth 8% and takes up 20 hours of my time, aren't I better off spending that time learning more SWE skills and building projects I care about, and choosing to take the 87%?

I honestly think the only reason I am still completing projects like these is because it just "feels really bad" to tank such a hit to my grade, so I'm curious to hear your guys' thoughts on this.