We ran into that situation all the time when I was an active. We had deferred rush, so women already had a semester's worth of grades in. My alma mater only required a 2.0 - that's a C average, folks - to participate in any extracurriculars, so that's what the minimum for rush was. Needless to say, we had lots of heartbroken PNMs after the first night of rush every year I was there.

I was going to say, I think the reason this happens is because the school says it has to. The school has no control over national/local GPA requirements for sororities.

You know, Panhellenics could easily fix this problem by clearly stating the chapters' minimum GPAs so women know their chances going into recruitment. AOII's chapter minimums are not a secret....are other NPC"s minimums secret?

At my school the minimum GPA to rush was 2.0. All the chapters had higher requirements, which actually WERE published in the annual recruitment booklet given to PNMs. Yet there were always women who rushed with below the chapter minimums (at my school, 4 chapters had a 2.25 minimum and one chapter had a 2.33 minimum)!

I think part of the reason our school refused to change it because there was a 2.0 minimum for guys' rush as well and having the women's move up to 2.25 (which would have been sensible) would have somehow been "unfair" or discriminatory. The fraternities, AFAIK, often pledged guys who had right at 2.0 and often "underground pledged" guys with below that and then just listed them with the school and nationals as pledges from informal recruitment the following term.

If you are stupid enough to sign up with a GPA lower than the chapter minimums, your deserve the comeuppance!

Pretty much. At least it was published at my school.

The one excuse I'll make for them is that they registered in the fall, before they knew what their final grades would be. Since we had rush in January, we looked at their first semester college grades, not their HS grades.

HS grades would have been fairly meaningless at my school anyway.

Ha! Grades could be completely irrelevant at my school! I've said it before....I know of one girl who got a bid to a competitive chapter at my school with a 1.9 college GPA! What!?! My chapter cut her...

Each year that I was active, my chapter always had a long discussion about grades - even though 3.0 is our minimum. Here are some issued that have been raised...I would be curious to know if any of you have dealt with these same things.

1. A girl's GPA is below Panhellenic standard but she gets is waived because of a learning disability (ADD, ADHD, dyslexia..)
2. A particular high school is very academically challenging...if this girl would have gone to another high school her grades would be better
3. A girl graduated high school with better than our minimum but took at least 24 hr of college credit (before actually starting college) and now doesn't have the minimum.

grades are HUGE at Arkansas this year.......know of a girl with just under a 3.0.........and she only got asked back to 3 houses for round 2. i'm afraid what tomorrow brings for her. whats up with GAME DAY Saturday.......the rushees cant even "tailgate" with their parents???

Rush starts at 3 today and ends at 11:40.

I'm told that the girls can go out and drink and everything. Rushees can go out as well but they have to be super careful what they do.

The official PNM count was 710 for Meet and Greet. 30 PNMs have withdrawn/been released at this point for grades or other reasons.

they have to (or are SUPPOSED to) tailgate and go to the game WITH THEIR GAMMA CHI

I know our girls voted to wear badge attire to the game to avoid any infractions. I guess they made some special rules about game day attire, but the members are freaked out that they might misinterpret them so they are going the safe route.