And it's possible that a high percentage of the people they were making exceptions for weren't ending up with bids, so they could see they were setting them up for bad results maybe.

basically it's legal discrimination

Are you speaking out of your ass again?

No...it's called standards!

I do agree that college students are full of excuses...but ADD and other learning problems can make school VERY VERY hard for students. Even when on medication. Sometimes the medication doesn't work as well as it should or stop working completely. Even when medication is working well, it doesn't treat all symptoms of ADD. It treats mostly the hyperactive, impulsivity, and inattentive symptoms. Medications doesn't help executive functioning that much. If someone is having trouble with executive functioning, it could negatively effect performance, no matter how well you are medicated.

Depeding on the circumstances, it can be considered as legal discrimination. But, I do agree that 2.5 GPA minimum is reasonable...even 2.75.

Just how exactly would that be discrimination?

LOVE this response! :)

Professional and honorary GLOs would be off the hook, since their main focus is academic achievement. There are probably exceptions.

But social and service GLOs are the ones who should be careful how they handle certain students, because they are mainly non-academic orgs turning down students for academic reasons. Learning disorders, ADD, Asperger's or whatever are defined as disabilities. Depending on the school, students with disabilites can have a variety of accomodations, including GPA or grade exceptions. Most GLOs have anti-discrimination policies. Disibilities can be included, it depends on the organization (which I believe is the majority). If a GLO denies a disabled student's rights (granted by the disability office), that could get them in trouble. They won't get thrown in jail of course, but it could get them a civil suit.

Again it really depends...the specific disability, how the school accomodates them, if the student even notified his/her school about the disability, specific school and student org policies, greek life policies, GLO policies, and how the student is treated.

But it's a GPA based policy for people who probably were receiving accommodation for the disability, right? Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have documentation on the disability to seek a waiver, right?

Disability law doesn't require that you have no standards for people with disabilities just that you make reasonable modification for them. If the students were receiving modifications in their classes, why would they need to be held to a lower academic standard in terms of GPA?

EXACTLY! Also, organizations other than honorary societies base decisions on achievement. Have you ever tried to get a job that requires a degree without having a degree or just getting by with the minimum gpa? The school itself often mandates a gpa cutoff for organizations because they see these as ways to make sure that weak students aren't overloading themselves on extra-curriculars while failing out of school. There are no rights to glo membership. It is an honor to join a NPC organization with lots of responsibilities. We may not be honorary societies, but academic success is part of our missions, Dionysus!

basically it's a way for them to say "something is wrong with you, so we don't want you in" that's what discrimination is.

But none of the sororities wants to come out and say "we don't want anyone with learning disableties to join" so they made an NPC rule basically saying the same thing

I don't see any such suit being successful.

In any event, as you've described it, it's not discrimination based on disability. No organization would be saying "we're not taking her because she's got this disability." They're not taking her because she doesn't meet academic qualifications. As others have noted, if there really is a disability requiring accommodation, then that should already have been taken into account by the school.

Not all standards = discrimination.

No, that is not what discrimination is. Discrimination is "treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit." (Thanks, dictionary.com.)

A GPA is without question individual merit and has nothing to do with "the group, class, or category to which that person . . . belongs."

I'm sorry, but I think it's just plain silly to suggest that having a GPA requirement is merely to keep people with learning disabilities out of sororities. That doesn't even pass the straight face test.

I'm sorry for butting in again, but when did learning disabilities automatically = dumb? I think some of you are assuming that. And, I don't think that is the case at all, that LD = dumb. Sure, some students may have to work harder because of their LD, but that does not make them dumb.

And, I don't see where this is discrimination. It is a standard. The sororities know how demanding being an active can be, whether you are talking about NPC, NPHC, MCGLO - greek life demands your time. If the student can not handle the demands of school and greek life, then that student needs to focus on school.

Besides, from what I've learned on these boards, it seems that girls who want to go to Ole Miss know if they want to be in a sorority or not, so then they should know that they need to have a high GPA to particiapte in recruitment.