Average GPA of NM classes?
 

I was wondering if any of you remember the average GPA of a newly recruited New Member Class.

I also wanted to get a feel about how schools with large formal Rush judge GPA when it comes to cutting.

So for example: Would the average GPA of a NM class at LSU be higher than a NM Class at a school with a much smaller amount of applicants?

I don't think I ever knew the GPA of any of our New Member classes...our GPA was always calculated as an entire sorority. However, GPA is carefully considered during our rush, which usually has anywhere between 600-900 PNMs. After Open House (the first day), most cuts are based upon GPA, and since a woman has to have a 3.0 high school GPA (I think) or a 2.8 university GPA in order to pledge my sorority, we don't like to keep PNMs whose GPA's are lower than that. Occasionally we will take a grade risk, meaning that if a woman has a GPA lower than the minimum but not by much and we really like her, we will take a chance on her. But usually, if a PNM's GPA isn't up to par, she gets cut.

James,

Do you mean average GPA at the start of pledging or after that first semester?

Start of pledging.

I agree mostly with AchtungBaby80. It calls into question a lot a variables so the answer is not cut and dry. First, you have to look at the school itself. What is the GPA of the school's applicants? If you need at least a 3.5 to get in, chances are the women going through recruitment are going to have at least that. I haven't seen this year's enrollment figures but for 2002, the minimum GPA is a 2.8.

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Specifically pertaining to recruitment...
At LSU, some chapters do not look at a person, first semester freshman, with less then a 3.0 and some as high as 3.2. An upperclassmen may have a point or two below that but often it is the same.

I do know that my cousin's NM class GPA going into recruitment, Stanford, was about a 3.6.

AchtungBaby80,
when you took grade risks with the new rushes b/c you really liked them, did you have to go all the way to the national headquaters to see if everything was ok with it? and once they started pledging, were they put on like probation? like if they didnt get their gpa up then they'd have to leave the sorority?
thanks!