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I agree with you Candela. A lot of my friends who pledged last yr were pre-med and still had time to pledge and keep their grades halfway decent. If you want something badly enough you will and can make the time for it regardless of what your major is. Life is about mananging your time which you will have to do with work, personal life, and etc.. It won't get any easier as you get older. I know for my school they raised the gpa up to 2.78 so you have to learn how to balance everything. I'm happy our school did this because if your grades aren't that great that means you can't handle the workload of just school work by itself let alone anything else. Due to other reasons I came to the conclusion that I was not ready to become greek due to maturity at the time in undergrad. But there were many who wanted to be greek that didn't meet the basic requirement like having community service, not knowing the sororitie's activites htey held on and off campus, and basic information like founding dates. I really believe many people just think since they want to become greek it will happen without doing any work to get it. And like someone mentioned before we are in a time where people think everything should be handed to them just because they want it. Another reason for the decline could be due to the research that is required. I don't understand how you think you are going to join XYZ and not know anything about them. Stereotyping is another problem. Just because you meet a bad person in XYZ doesn't mean the whole group is like that. Bad people are going to be bad people before and after they join XYZ. I've been lucky to encounter the most giving and generous people ever and they happen to be greek. I personally think it shows a lot about a person character if they are dedicated to something they feel very passionate about. But overall I think there is a decline due to people's ignorance and misconceptions.
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