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My chapter always had two pledge classes per year, one in fall, one in spring. We have an 8 week pledge period. We always used to pledge in and initiate prior to grades being released. Thus resulting in new initiates that didn't make grades (grades were released after initiation). We tried our best to monitor their grades by getting progress reports from their Profs., and other means. Did it work? Yeah, about 80% of the time. The other 20%, the grades were borderline or less than 2.5. So, I doubt there was a single semester where we didn't initiate a pledge with bad grades. It happened all the time with us, and we never caught heat with GF.
What we're trying to implement today, is initation after grades are released. Point blank, you don't get a 2.5, you're held over and can join the next pledge class. Bad thing about this method, for us, is that pledges go through pledging for 8 weeks in a 14 week semester. They then wait for grades, then they wait til the following semester to initiate.......which can be a long, long wait.
-kai-
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