OMG. The last sentence here....absolutely ridiculous. "whether or not i will graduate and if i do"..."START thinking"?

and may i ask how you know what ive been thinking about?

yes a 3.0 isnt that impressive. but the rate of my improvement is and its getting higher. and it is enough to go through rush. (you need a 2.5). academics are ALWAYS number 1 for me. i AM more concerned about my grades and school. thats why ive improved so much.

I'm getting the feeling that academics aren't "ALWAYS number 1" for you. If you are a junior who is just NOW getting a 3.0 at Bloomsburg then what will happen when you get into harder classes your senior year? What do you plan on doing when you graduate? I'll be honest and say that if you came through rush at my house and you "just" made a 3.0 as a junior in the 2nd semester of her junior year--you wouldn't get a second look. You may have a hard time with many of the national/ international sororities. Greek life takes up a lot of your time. Maybe you should just join a club or something.

Okay...this is just stupid. You said you had a 2.12 gpa. based on general math skills (which I assume you think none of us have) If you took 18 hours (which most Universities do not allow students on Academic Probation to take that many hours) & pulled all A's (HAHAHA...this made me just chuckle) you would then have about a 2.8.

(This was all based on you having on 30 hours of credits...which would not make you a Jr. ) If you were a Jr., you can not pull up your GPA that fast against 60 hours. Liar Liar...Pants on Fire

I'm bored with this Child.

But you do realize that the longer you are in school, the harder it is to raise your GPA? And that the longer you wait to rush, the higher your GPA normally needs to be in order to get in? (And I am familiar with Bloomsburg as well.)

DZsis&mom, thank you! THIS ^ is what I'm talking about. We need to stop with the watering down of our education system and letting anyone and everyone in. This is essentially the point I was making when I talked about challenging schools. Because I don't want to be offensive, I won't go into detail why I (and most people from my area) would think that it's pretty sad that the OP would be doing so poor at Bloomsburg.

I also wanted to add that AnotherKD knows what I'm talking about then--so, it doesn't need to be said. Thank you.

when did i say i had a 2.12??

yes of course i know that. i am also taking 4 or 5 courses over the summer.

actually im doing better that im in my major now and the classes have relevance to my future...i blew off classes that were gen ed (which was stupid, but i did) and im rushing 1st semester junior next year

Quoting Lucky KKG from the famous "rejectment" thread:

I hate rejectment
But I truly love Greek Chat
In before the lock
:p:p:p

I hope and pray you are not majoring in anything related to my field. And as AnchoraAlumna said...In before the lock (though I'm sure my banter with the OP will help get this locked).

just in general you all seem very bitter. why is that? i always strive to be an encouraging person. if i were in your situation...i would just think, go for it girl! keep focusing on your grades like you have been, and if being greek will make you happy then you should try it despite that you are a junior. you are all for some reason trying to bring me down!!!

Haiku time!
 

Oh, reality.

Sometimes, it is a bummer.

In before the lock.

Bitter? No. Realistic? Yes. Learn how to write and start getting better grades. I have a hard time telling you, "Go for it girl," when you aren't doing too hot and it's junior year. What are your goals for the future? What are you even majoring in? Please do NOT say Education.

Well, we know it isn't English . . .

Dude. You realize that the more classes you take, the less each one matters? Or am I talking to a wall? I mean, I can have a 4.0 semester, but if I have a really crummy first couple of years, it's not going to matter much.

THIS is why I roll my eyes at some people who are just outside of college and are complaining that they can't find work. When I ask what they did in college, they say that they skated by with a 2.5gpa and they majored in something completely irrelevant. No shit, you won't find a job. There are plenty of qualified and hardworking people that have problems finding jobs, and if you think that not getting into the house you want is your big conundrum coming up, you are seriously misled.

i have learned how to write and am actually a good writer..i have mentioned before that when i am online i type as if i would be texting. i certainly do have goals for the future and i am a business major. i don't feel my goals for the future and listing them out for you would in any way help solve my issue of how i could be successful in rush as a junior.

AnotherKD, I couldn't have said it any better myself! I added my own piece to what you said. Thank you for really putting it out there. More students need to think about this. I also wanted to tell SWTXBelle that she made me :) when she posted her comment. Yep, GC is the site that keeps giving back....lol

Applauding....Thank you for showing up for the show tonight!!!

This = laziness. If you want people to care enough to respond to you with actual answers, care enough to write well.

/text-speak-is-a-plague rant

Guess what, cupcake? I also post like I text - but you see, the difference is I text like an educated person. Also, if I were trying to convince people that I wasn't an academic loser with no business thinking of joining a sorority I would make sure my posts were pluperfect.

eta - MC, this semester I received my first academic paper with text speak in it. I wanted to cry.

you guys are so off topic...i just wanted to know how to successfully rush next semester and if you guys had any tips. but no you guys just wanna bring people down and talk to them about their academics that are relevant to this ...yes...buttt was not the question

ha, laziness. im working on schoolwork in another window - that is why im being lazy on here.

Apparently, you aren't very good at reading between the lines (though a few of us have flat out said it to you) when we say you will NOT be successful going through sorority rush. Even the house that struggles for numbers--I guarantee won't take you. You are a liability. No one wants to take the girl with the poor grades.

i dont have poor grades. average grades.

Many times, girls receive open bids AFTER they have gone through formal rush. They may have set their sights on a sorority that didn't bid them, or dropped out before signing a bid, or dropped out for other reasons. Suffice it to say, they didn't "choose that sorority only" to begin with.

OR, a woman may receive an open bid because she knows the majority of the sisters. For example, my chapter had many sisters who were in band. They often gave open bids to girls who were also in band without the girls going to a single party, since everyone knew them already.

If you don't know the majority of the sisters well OR have not checked out all the other sororities previously, trying to COB for one sorority only is not a good idea. It makes you look 1) stalkery and obsessed or 2) like you think getting a bid from them is easy peasy/like you heard they take anyone, so surely they'll take you.

Not average for sorority women.

Let me spell it out for you - WITH YOUR G.P.A., ATTITUDE AND JUNIOR STATUS ODDS ARE YOU WILL NOT HAVE A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT.

^Is that really a good idea? If your grades are so poor (or in your words "average") then should you really be having up multiple windows while trying to study and do school work? No. Worry about school and not social media sites. If you are just NOW getting a 3.0 in junior year and you are apparently in your 1st semester of junior year--what makes you think you will continuously be able to maintain that 3.0? I doubt you will.

You said you were taking summer courses. Will they be at Bloomsburg or another school? That will play a major factor into your GPA.

Please don't say things like "guarantee" when you aren't in the chapter or involved with it.

You are right. Let me rephrase that. I am almost certain that you will not get a bid (or at least you will have a really hard time getting one).

You call this a rant?

Weak.

Hey, I'm tired. Sue me.

No, it didn't have to be said. Regardless of whether the OP is a troll or not, the school-basing is unnecessary and unbecoming, as are all of the assumptions packed around it.

But if you're going to cast stones, the word you're looking for is "poorly," not "poor."

You're right. I shouldn't have said anything along those lines. I was trying to make a point and I did it in an unbecoming way. I apologize to the OP (and anyone else who has attended/ graduated from there).

yes, average for sorority women at my school. ive spoken to many. actually my school doesnt care much for if they have a high gpa...it definitely is a factor and they take pride in knowing their sorority has a good overall gpa..but they focus more on the social aspects of the girls

Wow. :eek: Clueless is all I can say.

I might. Alienation of affection.

Wow, blast from the past. It's been a while since als has gotten haughty about colleges.

because i have a different attitude to school now. you see, its not my academic ability that made my gpa so low...it was just the fact that i didnt put in work. now, i put in work and get good grades. and i love getting good grades. nothing makes me think i will be able to maintain the 3.0 but everything makes me think i will raise it. yes i am taking summer courses and it will play a factor in my gpa by making it go up because i always do well in summer when we only take 2 classes at a time.

if you dont go to my school, you wouldnt know.

I stand by my post.

If you think the school doesn't care about g.p.a. you are wrong. What random sorority members may have told you is not going to trump national requirements for NPCs - as to locals, hey, who knows? But speaking as a sorority member who has years of experience dealing with recruitment I can authoritatively say that having the liabilities of a poor g.p.a, attitude and being an upperclassman are going to make it nigh onto impossible to get a bid from a NPC sorority.

Dollars to donuts, you will go bidless.

The question wasn't whether or not you were taking classes over the summer. I was asking where you were taking them because that makes a big difference. At many schools, if you try and transfer in your classes from another school (say community college or somewhere else) then the school may only take the credits and not give you the grade. So, you could go to community college and take 5 classes over the summer and get all "A's" in those classes but, when you try to transfer them to Bloomsburg, they could say, "That's great. Here's your 15 credits but, your GPA has not changed one bit!" You need to be aware of this.