Well done, haha

The 0.8 from the other school won't be calculated into her new school's GPA. Her GPA starts over if she transferred. Which makes me wonder, which school would take someone with a 0.8 GPA (which I am guessing is from two semesters if that is your final GPA?).

ETA that I know that this doesn't change the fact that the most recent GPA is what will be looked at for recruitment.

I could see this being an issue as a transfer student. But do (all/any/some/most) college applications require information regarding previous college courses if she is “starting over” as an incoming freshman?

Say someone who takes college courses as a senior in high school at "College Number I" yet attends "College Number II". My understanding is that if she doesn't transfer those credits, they will not count for her or against her.

Why wouldn't this - in theory - be the same if she is "starting over" as an incoming freshman?

If she applies as an incoming freshman at “College Number II”, is she required to note that she attended “College Number I”? If not, then wouldn’t the College Panhellenic simply use her high school GPA since in theory, the high school GPA is what “College Number II” used to grant her admission as an incoming freshman.

In theory, I guess a student could list a year as a "gap" year. I imagine the high school transcript might list where the student was intending to go to college...but "didn't".

HOWEVER, the first university had to have been listed with the transcript...or somewhere in the current transcript (or not). But I think...and rethink...and rethink but I come up with the obvious, "Oh what a tangled web...."

How do you even get a 0.8 GPA?

1 C, 1 D, and 2 Fs..round it up and you get .8 for a semester.

While schools might start you over with a GPA just on your average at that college, I'm pretty sure some colleges retain a separate average that includes your average for all credits earned and maybe even credits attempted. Sure, policies change, but I don't think her .8 will completely go away.

(A long time ago, I transferred after my freshman year, and I'm pretty sure that the average used for recruitment included both my freshman and sophomore grades. On my transcript, I think there was a separate UGA only average, but I doubt it was what the groups looked at. Sure, things change over the years, but I don't think that most schools are going to ignore all grades earns in classes that they are giving you credit for towards graduation. )

I have a hard time imagining this part too. On the upside, since such a student wouldn't be getting credit at the new school for F's and maybe even for some Ds, her cumulative average at the new place might even up being a little higher than if she stayed at the old place.

I guess it could have gone down like that, but that's not what the OP describes. She says she is a transfer student with a .8, rather than someone who started over at a new school.

Even if a student did try to start over and not transfer credits, depending on the school, if she enrolled at a school that used hometown recs, someone would probably reveal the misspent year. And I think most groups would take a hard look at someone who failed to focus at the level that she earned a .8.

Lying about your grades (to your college or to the sororities on your campus) is not a good way to "make a fresh start." You'll just spend the rest of your life trying to keep up with your lies. Instead, the best advice I think I can offer is to humbly own your past mistakes, learn from them, and understand the behaviors that led to them in order to make better choices going forward.