Highest GPA requirements ever seen?
 

I believe there was a thread a week or so ago about a sophomore rushee who for whom the non-Freshman GPA requirement in some (all?) sororities was a 3.5.

I was very surprised at that number. Can anyone verify that they have seen a GPA requirement that high (or even higher???)?

3.5 is the highest I have seen. I can't remember where I saw it, but it was recently. I want to say it was a California school, and it wasn't a requirement to rush, just a certain chapter's requirement.

At UCLA, the university requirement is very high for admission, so not many women go through recruitment under a 3.5 gpa. I see the PNM profiles & the majority are above a 4.0!

My Beta Sigma Phi chapter came very close to requiring a 3.5 for prospective new members who were students effective this fall.

It was set pretty close to that anyway.

With such variety on whether and how additional GPA points are given for Honor/IB/AP classes, getting into a sorority seems to have what school system you come from as part of the mix...

I saw a chapter requiring members to have a 3.5 recently, they wanted to really focus on improving their academics during the year. It actually worked extremely well. Again, not a Panhellenic requirement, just the chapters requirement.

An upperclassman GPA requirement of 3.5 during Recruitment would not surprise me in the least. Not when the sorority average on the campus I advise is usually around a 3.4 and chapters typically want women who improve their grades, not lessen them.

I do know of a chapter that had some struggles with their GPA dropping below the Panhellenic average enough to make their executive office concerned. The conditions of their probation included that they had to raise their incoming new member GPA requirement to 3.8. This lead to one year of being confused during recruitment (the girls with GPA problems were really rushing the smart cookies), but did improve the chapter GPA and its standing after 2 or 3 years.

At schools like Stanford, Brown, etc., the overall GPA is 3.4-3.5, so if you want to recruit above-average women, you have to look for numbers even higher than that. Those schools all have deferred recruitment, too, so no one's coasting in on their HS GPA.