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Originally Posted by fantASTic
So...I was looking through the stats for my school's Greek Life GPA stuff for last year, and noticed that for the overall chapter GPAs, 6 out of the bottom 8 (out of over 20 chapters) were NPHC...and of the other two, one was Sigma Lambda Gamma. Almost all of these chapter GPAs were under 2.5 and one was under a 2.0 by quite a bit. This led me to question whether NPHC chapters also differ from NPC and IFC academically - do your chapters have requirements to maintain a certain GPA to be active? What is it? Is it national or is it a local thing? If you go under, what happens? I figured if anyone would know, you all would 
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As someone who was initiated via undergrad during my sophomore year, your findings are related to that of your university and it only speaks to the chapters at your school. My undergrad chapter was always among those with the highest gpa's at my school and I'm sure this is the case at many schools. I will say that it can indeed be challenging to fulfill sorority/fraternity duties and keep your grades high when your chapter is small and therefore there are less hands available to do what is required. Also sometimes chapters can take on more than they are truly able to and instead of creating calendars with less activity, they try to do everything.
As for required gpa's, all of the NPHC orgs have national gpa's that all chapters must adhere to. In my org, it is possible for a chapter to have a local gpa that is higher than the national but never lower than the national. The idea of a chapter not achieving the national gpa is not taken lightly and consequences are enforced, although this doesn't necessarily mean that a chapter would be prohibited from engaging in all activities. For the gpa's of each org, visit the national websites.