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Originally posted by mccoyred
...I would like to see more stringent membership requirements, not necessarily in terms of GPA but in those subjective areas like good character, sisterliness and high ideals.
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Gotta disagree with ya, Soror! I'm a FIRM believer in a 3.0 GPA for DST membership (I am ONLY talking about DST's standards, so other greeks, don't get offended). I don't buy into that "a C at X school is like an A at Y school." A scholar is a scholar is a scholar, and good SCHOLARSHIP should be the goal of ALL college students, and ESPECIALLY of the greeks! How can we call our orgs "elite" when we aren't accepting ONLY the above-average students. Academics is what comes FIRST when we're dealing with collegiates, right? We don't (shouldn't) go to college to pledge, we should go with the goal of graduating!
I know girls who have to STRUGGLE for the 2.5
. In My opinion, pledging with a boarderline GPA like that should be the LAST thing on their agenda! So many people's GPAs fall when they're on-line, and I don't think a 2.5 can afford to slip! Yet, we have greeks walking around (all big and proud) on academic probabtion or who aren't in school and never even got a degree! Is this the example we want to set when we talk about the importance of SCHOLARSHIP--barely making a 2.5 just to pledge?!?!?
Our Founders strived for and achieved academic excellence during a time when blacks and women were catching HELL all over the nation. I know things aren't all hunky-dory in our world today, but compared to what our Founders and older sorors had to endure when they were in school, sistas these days have it way too easy to be STRUGGLING for a 2.5! The focus should be on pulling up that GPA for the pursuit of academic excellence, not for gettin' some letters!
Same thing with community service. Girls buss' their a$$es doing JUST ENOUGH community service to get an acceptable letter to accompany their DST application packet! I know people who've never even DONE the service-- they just got the hook-up from someone they know who works for Red Cross or Habitat or what have you. These are the same kinds of people who, after they cross, are only concerned with partying, road-trippin,' and the up-coming step-show! None of them continue to do community service for and by themselves--and IF they do anything after they cross, it's only in the name of DST. If the chapter weren't going to work on a Habitat house on Saturday, they wouldn't be going! Why should she continue doing individual, self-motivated service? Once she got that community service letter, she was done!
I agree that we need to raise the bar. However, we can't raise some and not others--we NEED to make it more competitive across the board! I am much more interested in the young lady who's OBVIOUSLY committed to service, is an active leader, AND is able to maintain a 3.0+ in the midst of her extra-curriculars. Delta Women have always been multi-taskers who are successful in all they do. Why is it that we're now accepting women who do 1 or 2 things well, but SICK in other areas? Why do we make excuses for these people? That is SO NOT what the real world is all about! Do you think HARVARD is gonna let a student with low grades and a low LSAT into its law school just because of the kind of undergad school he/she went to? HELL NO! My cousin graduated from Yale with a 3.6 and an exceptional LSAT score (she got into Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, NC, and UPenn, just to name a few), but Harvard still turned her down!
If you have a standard, you need to stick to it! This is how you do away with LARGE LINES and how you maintain your good reputation and that proud feeling amongst your members. Now, it seems more weight is put on the amount of sh*t people endure during pledging, rather than the honor of even making line! That's because the standard is so low, that meeting the minimum criteria isn't anything to boast about anymore--it's about how much a$$ you kissed, how many calls you made, how much sleep you didn't get, and how much wood you took. Chapters now are glorified more for being suspended for hazing, not for having the highest GPA on campus. We got it ALL backwards!
I'd love to see Delta go back to a 3.0
And I'm Out!