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Originally Posted by SummerChild
To answer the original question, I think that Greek life is still basically what it seems to have been initially intended to be:
a sisterhood/brotherhood
service to the community
taking on issues that largely impact AA (sorry, just being honest) although some of us provide SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND 
among college or college-educated AA.
It's still generally this in my opinion. I know in Alpha Kappa Alpha, we are still cultivating and encouraging high scholastic and ethical standards, promoting unity among college women, studying and helping to alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve their social statue, maintaining a progressive interest in college life and being of service to all mankind. |
Now this is the idea with which I beg to differ. High scholastic and ethical standards.....I hardly call 2.5 HIGH, it's actually mediocre, and I'm not pointing this specifically at AKA, we ALL have 2.5, I heard one frat's gpa requirement is actually a 2.3, and since some frats, at least used to, allow ppl to pledge their first semester, there was/is no gpa requirement at all!!! If we were all "promoting" high standards, the gpa requirement would be FAR ABOVE a 2.5, and letters of recommendation would not just be Soror/Service/Scholastic and one of each [although I know not all orgs even require THESE three letters from a candidate] they'd also require some type of fitness of character, and the requirements for the letters would be much more demanding. Our Founders used to compete for the highest GPA, and would not add chapters at schools that had less than a B [3.0] average, initially it was A. But even with the school having a B average, most would hesitate to accept ppl with anything near a 3.0. And unity?!........ have you been to a coming out show/stepshow lately?! it's not EVERY org on EVERY campus, but in EACH org there are SEVERAL chapters that are NOT about promiting unity!
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Originally Posted by SummerChild
There is a tendency to compare the days of old with now in terms of processes, caliber of candidates, etc. It happens outside of BGLO life as well and therefore is not really a big deal to me because our candidates tend to still be the creme of the crop. How many times have we heard folk say that back in the day AA were more unified, the music was better, the musicians were more talented, etc. Now go back a generation before that and the people of that generation will say the same about the generation that came after *them*.
Overall, I think that most will agree that those in BGLOs are still generally the talented tenth.
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Now this is something I KNOW to not be true! For instance, law school, in 1997, the median LSAT score for those admitted to Yale was 164, in 2004 it was 173, before 1997 it was far below that, the same trend you'll see in Medical School and ALL other grad/professional programs. It is much more highly competitive to get a spot than it was even 8 years ago! So that's not something I see as a general trend. While we all do still have stellar candidates, but then there are SEVERAL in ALL ORGS who would probably not have made it 10 years ago!