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Originally Posted by KappaKittyCat

The bolded bit upsets me. I know that each school has its minimum GPA and each sorority has its national minimum, which is often higher, and that some individual chapters may have even higher GPAs requirements than what nationals sets. However, it bothers me when the minimum for each chapter, regardless of at what level it's set, isn't disclosed to PNMs beforehand. They should know that going in so they can make educated decisions about the chapters and not get their hopes up unrealistically. I think having that info privileged because it's "part of MS" is, frankly, BS.

Now I can imagine another scenario: a chapter has a minimum GPA of 3.0. They've already made all their cuts after first round and still have more women than release figures allow them to invite back, so they go through and cut those with the lowest GPAs until they reduce the list to its appropriate size. Say they weren't able to stop until they hit 3.15, making that their effective chapter minimum. That number, I agree, would be part of MS. If that's what was being talked about here, then I'm cool. But for a chapter to say, "We have a minimum GPA and its confidential, sorry," is really crappy.

Agreed. W&L did disclose all the individual chapter's requirements beforehand. It always shocked me that some PNMs who met the bare minimum Panhel requirement to participate (2.0), but fell below all the individual chapter's GPA (I think the lowest one was a 2.25--actually maybe all the groups but one had a 2.25) requirements would still participate!