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My Gamma Phi chapter does something that might work well for you in this situation. New members are required to turn in a list of their grades from their professors at midterms, and those who do not meet the grade requirements at that time are required to get weekly checkups from the standards and/or scholarship chair, and then turn in another set of grades the week before initiation. If they haven't met the grades at that point, they are told they will not be initiated with their new member class and we will wait to see their semester grades. If they made grades for the semester, we initiate them before spring recruitment begins (we have spring and fall, much like many fraternities). If they still haven't made grades, we give them one semester to try again, with heavy academic supervision and little "fun" sorority involvement, and if they aren't making grades again, they're gone. It has worked really well for the chapter and shows the new members we're serious about scholarship.
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