Should I go through Formal Recruitment?
 

Oh, where to start......

First off, edit your post. You have given way too much personal info so that you could easily be recognized.

Second, take responsibility for your academic shortcomings. Quit blaming everyone and everything else. While family emergencies happen and your personal life can hamper your schoolwork, the one constant factor in all of your school stuff is you.

Pledge the library, the writing center, and the academic resource center on campus. Even if you qualified for rush or to receive a bid, balancing the time and commitment of a sorority would only further remove you from academics. You need strong study and time management skills before you get involved in anything on campus, greek or not. A sorority is not a magic fix for poor study skills or few friends.

I am not sure if you will even permitted to sign up for recruitment with your grades. I see on the Delta State web site that you may not go through recruitment if you are on academic probation.

Please please please edit your post. You have way too much personal info here.

Is your transfer already a sure thing? To be honest, I wouldn't expect a school to accept a transfer student with a low gpa.

The chapters will only look at your college gpa, and you just aren't strong on paper. You may be a wonderful person but I would suggest you focus on academics and less time demanding activities to help boost your social and study skills.

This!

If you learn nothing else in college, please learn to at least take responsibility for your actions. It's one thing to have a bad semester because of a family issue, or to have a professor that doesn't mesh well with you and your style of learning. However, your GPA isn't just bad.. it's abysmal. That isn't due to anything else except the fact that you're simply not trying. Don't try and sugarcoat it. And don't act like you need a group of people around you in order to study well.

Figure out school and try to raise your GPA. Worry about a sorority only after you do that.

It's gonna take about 2 semesters with both a minimum of a 3.0 to get it even close to a 2.4. I've been in that situation: thankfully I worked my way out of it. And to address the excuse of your low grades: most schools don't take excuses in regards to having a low gpa. I would focus on my academics for a while, like maybe a whole year to get back into the swing of things. College isn't gonna get any easier the further up you go.

This is true..

Has this school actually accepted you?

If anything else, this post shows a piece of info I wish I would have had my freshman year:

DROP A CLASS IF IT SUCKS AND WILL DRAG YOUR GPA DOWN.

If you can't understand the teacher, drop the class!! If you have an 8 o'clock and can never get up that early, drop the class!

Everything doesn't have a prerequisite. Take some other general studies course you will need at some point.

I wish I knew this as well. My first semester GPA sucked for this very reason. Schools should really find a way to make it known to every student that dropping a class is possible.

That being said, after my first semester, I took one class for a second time with a new professor (and did extremely well), and I worked my butt off to bring my GPA up. I know many people who were in the same position I was, and that first semester was a learning experience and a huge wake up call.

Ditto. I had a teacher tell me she was going to flunk me the day after it was too late to drop. Lesson learned the hard way.

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but OP - have you been tested for a learning disability or something else that might be interfering with your ability to achieve academic success? From what you wrote, you're not progressing.

There might well be something else going on with you that you could investigate and address. School should be your first priority. To that end, find out what's preventing you from achieving.

I say this because I have had attention difficulties my entire life (although I was able to hyperfocus on studying and got great grades, because I learned to isolate myself). In hindsight, it would have been helpful had my attention span and distractibility gotten the medical support it needed. Even today I still struggle with impulsivity and focus, but I finally know how to do what needs to be done when it really counts.

A sorority should be pretty far down on your list. That's my opinion.

Depending on how your school handles transfers - and they all can vary - the F's may not even show up. So it may be that your GPA will be only the A's - D's that you received. I'd ask the school how they do that and check with the Greek Life office as well. You very well may be worrying about something that won't even show up. If it does, you'll have to deal with it but I would get all the info from your school first - and not us. We didn't go to your community college nor the college you are transferring to nor are we there now. And they are the final arbitor.

So what would you suggest removing, exactly?

I know that I've messed up, and let personal problems affect my school work. I don't think that that is ever going to change... it's just my personality. I stress too much about the things that are not as important as the things I don't stress for. I was raised in a household where homework and studying time was not given. Once I got home from school, it was time to clean... no exceptions.

My senior year was my best year in high school, due to having a part-time babysitting job. When I have a lot of commitments, I know how to spend my time wisely. But when I'm not doing anything other than school I'm not. That's why I think joining a sorority would be good for me. It won't allow me to have all the time in the world to slack off.

If I had just dropped all the classes that counted last semester, my GPA problem wouldn't be an issue. But, of course, it is now.

Thank you!

I was not aware that I would be on academic probation. I'm currently on academic alert at my current school, which is just that-an alert to show that if I don't do better I will be on probation/restriction. Two of my friends are currently on probation status, and are only allowed to take 2 classes this semester.

But thank you! That will definitely be something I'll look into.

The transfer is a sure thing... IF and only IF I pass this semester's classes. The minimum to transfer is 2.0. I'm not aiming for that, because that would just be stupid. I am aiming for however high I can get, but even getting a 4.0 this semester would only bring my GPA to a 2.6.

I've calculated it, and in order to get a 2.4, I have to get a 3.2 this semester.

In any case, thank you!

Believe me, I wish I had dropped the two classes I failed last semester. It would have left me with a 2.6, which I could have brought up this semester. The crazy thing? I wasn't even registered for them until two of my courses were dropped for not having the right prerequisites and my mom telling me I needed to taken them because she couldn't condone me only taking a part-time load. They were classes I wasn't interested in, but were available.

I haven't, actually. But I'm currently looking in to getting that done. I can't focus on many things anymore. I used to be an avid (YA Fiction) reader... like sit-in-one-place-while-reading-a-400+-page-book-from-start-to-finish... Heck, in 10th grade, I read the entire Breaking Dawn book in 6 hours flat... and that is 756 page book.

I can't even sit down and focus on a 3 page "story", much less a 400+ page book.

Joining a sorority, was down on my list. It wasn't even an option until a Fraternity brother who is a student at DSU said something about it. The school is small and, from what I gather, very Greek oriented. That's all that brought that to mind Which got me researching a lot about it, which lead to this forum, and this question.

That's not even something I thought about. However, I was under the impression that once you transfer you start off with a clean slate, GPA wise.

That is definitely something I will look in to.

I was only asking here, because if on the off chance that a current member of the sororities at my school (or recent graduates) were here they could be able to give school-specific info.

Thank you!

You may start off with a clean slate at the school, but sororities consider your most recent GPA if you've attended another college (whereas first semester freshman are considered on basis of their high school GPA). It appears based on the school website that any student in good standing at the school can go through recruitment, but that the three sororities may have GPA requirements above those of the school's. You can certainly give it a shot.

However, a 1.9 is very low and I really can't imagine anyone getting a bid with a GPA of that caliber. Even a 2.4 is very low.

I suggest you transfer and get a great semester of grades under your belt. Then rush. Right now your GPA is incredibly low and you can't base your GPA going into recruitment on what you "expect" you will receive this semester because there's no guarantees that you will earn those grades.

Good luck. I'd wait until my GPA was up a bit and I was acclimated to my new school in your situation. You can join other campus organizations in the meantime and meet Greeks and new friends this way. Getting involved on campus will also help you manage your time, if you truly believe that you need to have outside obligations to help you prioritize...

This is good advice. OP, I saw where you said that you were thinking of having yourself tested. I believe that scheduling the tests can take some time and then you have to wait for the results and an interpretation of the tests, so I would say get on it right away.

Disclaimer: I'm not Greek, BUUUT I know what it's like to have a low GPA and having it be because of personal issues (friends were murdered, family members died, "baby daddy" drama up the ya-ya, medical issues). No matter what, your main focus should be on school.
And yes, I know sometimes it feels if you tack on more, it's easier to manage time because you have less "free time", but I suggest joining study groups, and doing tutoring sessions first.
I am in the process of trying to raise my GPA up (right now it's about a 2.6+ which I have been working on raising from a 1.4) and hopefully this quarter I will be getting a quarter GPA of 3.75 - 4.0 (one class is right there between it being an A or a B depending on my essays) =]] Once you raise your GPA, then I would worry about Greek life.

This. My experience has been a lot like AZTheta's, to the point that I avoided taking potentially challenging classes in undergrad (that weren't required for my degree, anyway) or exploring subject areas that weren't ludicrously easy for me. I totally regret that now, especially since I had some leftover credits I could've used to broaden my experiences in these fields.

(While I am not a psychologist and am not qualified to diagnose the OP, one thing that strikes me--and convinces me that she's barking up the right tree with her seeking evaluations--is the fact that she comes off as quite intelligent in her writing, and most people with this particular disorder are very intelligent, some even geniuses, a number of my favorite composers among them. Just don't be like Beethoven and try to self-medicate with 60-beans-per-cup coffee...) :)