Initiation GPA to a sorority
 

can anyone tell me what GPA is required to be initiated to a sorority? is it set by the sorority's national office or by the school panhellenic?

Tell your DAUGHTER to ask her school's Greek Life office HERSELF.

If you're asking for yourself, contact the school's Greek Life office.

If you're asking for your daughter, tell your daughter to contact the school's Greek Life office.

Most NPC organizations no longer have a GPA requirement to be initiated. That was pretty much eliminated with the implementation of shorter new member programs. Your daughter should be fully informed what the requirements for initiation are for her chapter. If she's unclear, she needs to talk to her chapter's VP Membership.

If an initiated member's grades are below the all sorority and/or all women's average she will probably be required to participate in a study skills program and may lose social privileges until her grades improve.

I've just learned something new. Using the all sorority or all women's average makes a lot of sense in terms of an accurate comparison.

This is not true (please don't use qualifiers like "most").

It's just that if she doesn't meet the requirement prior to recruitment, she will probably not get a bid. Also, the study skills/study hours programs are a chapter/organization thing and the requirements to be a part of such a study program are therefore set by the chapter/organization.

Agreed.

No need to be a jerk Fridayyyyy! She actually is still in high school, and I'm just trying to have answers to questions I know she will ask me in the next year or so. It is called being a good mother. Doubt you understand the concept!

Thanks to those who were helpful! It has been more than 25 years since my sorority days, so I knew things had probably changed. My son is in a frat, but I know things are totally different on the sorority side of the greek system.

Insinuating that someone is a bad mother on this board is stupid, mostly because many of us either don't have kids or see kids as irrelevant to our greek life experiences.

You know, the ones we had. Ourselves. Instead of through our kids.

Best thing for your daughter to do is to wait until the appropriate time and then contact the local alumnae Panhellenic. They can answer many of her questions and she can also read the greek life page of her chosen school, and contact the greek life advisor on her campus. Best thing you can do is direct her to these resources if you don't know the answer off the top of your head (rather than finding out for her/giving her misinformation).

Daughter is in high school....came on this site because I felt I could get an honest answer, which I did by the other helpful posters.

Chill. Just so you know, sororities have different requirements on the (inter)national level for GPA. Many sororities allow their chapters to vote on a higher GPA cut-off locally. Depending on the campus, the cut-off may be very high for the more competitive chapters. The Campus Panhellenic can mandate a certain GPA to sign up for recruitment, but this does NOT mean that the GPA is consistent with the requirements of the individual chapters. That's basically a long winded way of saying that your daughter needs to maintain the highest GPA possible.

You're too dumb to realize no one answered your question.

Twenty-five years is not so long that you don't know the more effective way to find out about GPAs.

FYP.

Women who already have a college GPA (i.e. second semester freshmen and older) definitely have to meet a college GPA requirement to get a bid AND to be initiated.