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Originally posted by SAEalumnus
I strongly disagree with initiating anyone in the same term they pledged for the single reason that you haven't seen their grades yet, so you don't really have any proof of their level of responsibility (people can say they have straight 'A's all they want, but need to be able to put their grade report where their mouth is). A number of pledges of my chapter who might otherwise have been initiated were depledged on the grounds of not putting school first. Students are at the university to get an education first; everything else is secondary.
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I have to strongly agree with you. I SO wish we would go back to not initiating until we had grade reports. I consider it a barrier to entry, and not hazing in the least.
The students are there to go to school, we should be making grades a priority.
And I speak as someone who was a pledge for an entire school year because she did not the grade point to initiate after the first semester of pledging. I have only myself to blame for that.....