Wow. No GPA reports or bid lists on the website? Greek life sure has changed with shamp coming and going

Gamma Phi Beta
 

I just looked at Gamma Phi Beta's UGA website and they already have their list of New Members posted with their Bid Day photo. According to the site, they have 57 new members! Way to go Gammies!!!

http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/q...19189620-1.jpg

If any of you had pnm friends who attended preference at Tri Delta, I have a copy of the new member list. PM me and I will help if I can with a particular name. Our list should go on the website soon.
Football Fan

Look at the Gammie Girls!!!! Wooo hooo!
 

florida Tish- thanks for the photo WOW! What a great picture!!
thanks
Merry

Oh the greek houses in Athens are gorgeous. Thanks for making me homesick lol.

The houses are dreamy, ITA!

My mother in law was in that house in the 40's when it was the Chi O house. When I was in Athens it was Sig Ep I think. Boys at any rate. Glad to see it back in the hands of young ladies. Can you imagine what that renovation was like?

My chapter moved into a former fraternity house two years ago after over a year of renovations. I think the landlord is quite pleased to have us there instead. :)

Oh my gosh! I was just looking through the bid day pics and a girl I used to babysit is a new KAPPA!!! How random she would be in those few pictures. I'm so happy for her - she will totally fit in with the UGA Kappas.

All the mentions of the Hope Scholarships throughout these threads got me curious so I did some googling -- the numbers on this page are impressive in terms of # awarded & $ awarded, but I'm wondering if anyone can explain the huge drop in scholarships awarded from 2007-2008 to 2008-2009? Is it because they are awarded throughout the year so the numbers will eventually get to the six figures as in previous years? Anyone in GA know? https://www.gsfc.org/gsfcnew/sandg_facts.cfm?GUID=

I believe that is the case. Many students do not have money yet for this academic year, and students often "lose Hope" [that always cracks me up for some reason] if their grades fall below the required minimum. The academic year has just started, so I'm betting that the number will rise as the year progresses, and that amount reflects summer payments thus far.

My somewhat educated opinion, for what it's worth.

I agree that mainly it just doesn't reflect the awards to students for this this fall yet.

I think this actually kicked in a few years ago, but there was also a dip in HOPE grants awarded straight out of high school because the qualifying criteria switched from being an B average that student could meet by having an 80 or above on a percentage grade system to a true 3.0 GPA. I think there were a lot of kids who had 80 averages in high schools whose true GPA was more like a 2.5 because they had half 75 ish grades and half 85-ish grades.

There was a big change in how it was calculated beginning with last year's senior class. First, they only use your core classes, so you don't get a bonus from that 100 in weight training or honors lunch, and if you failed a class and took it again, the failed grade doesn't get dropped like it used to. Secondly, they used to award a full point for AP or IB classes; now you only get .5 and nothing extra for an A (so the highest you can get is 4.0, even for AP Calculus BC...sucks!). So your school's GPA may be 4.5, but your HOPE GPA would only be 4.0. Our school tells the kids to figure that their HOPE GPA is probably about .5 below their school GPA, so if you have a 3.0 on your report card, chances are you won't have a high enough GPA to get HOPE.

And keeping it is another story altogether. My kids go to Tech. Not exactly generous on the grading scale there (although I always say that it makes sense if you don't want your airplanes falling from the sky or your bridges collapsing). No. 1 daughter is graduating in May and kept it all four years--she can't lose it because she won't come under review again.

Probably more information than anybody wanted. :o

Ah! Interesting! Thank you for all the information!

UGA Panhel told me they will be posting a new member list, but their web person had been out this week.