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Originally Posted by Kevin
HS GPA is absolutely meaningless. I agree with you there.
Where I don't agree with you is the underlying assumption that the greek system actually hurts new members' GPAs at a disproportionate rate.
If that is statistically true, it would seem to me that creating an incentive (e.g., allowing groups which have good overall grades for the previous year's class to rush in the fall) would help to mitigate if not reverse that statistic.
While I'd hate to see our pledge programs just become glorified study halls, I wouldn't mind seeing a little more emphasis placed on academics throughout the system.
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I am not assuming that going greek hurts new members' GPAs. Some schools have had problems with retention as a result of first semester grades and chose to defer recruitment. Fall recruitment works well some places, others not so much.
What I am trying to say is that offering freshmen bids is basically a crapshoot. You don't know which PNMs will do well and which ones will flunk out even among good high school GPAs. Just because you picked a good freshman new member class one year and no one flunked out doesn't mean you'll have the same luck next year.
By waiting a semester, chapters can weed out PNMs who performed poorly during their first semester. If a fraternity or sorority is really interested in a particular freshman before he/she is eligible, members should befriend the freshman and encourage him/her to participate in recruitment when he/she is eligible.