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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Oh, and yes NPCs look at GPAs for membership evaluation. And sometimes it turns out that a straight A high school kid can't do well with college level work, but I suspect that more often than not, good students continue to be good students and slackers continue to be slackers.
I also think that GPA is one of the areas in which NPC groups really like to compete to the level that it might affect individual behavior.
And if a group valued service or campus involvement more that being #1 in grades, then it would be hard to compete with the chapter that partially defined themselves by always being at the top of the GPA list.
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while being known as "the greek org with the highest GPA" is awesome, if the motivation is "because we win" and not because, well you want to get good grades anyway....
i kinda cant buy that. getting good grades takes effort and doesnt happen overnight. at the same time, early on, one blemish can totally screw up a GPA. lets say youre a frosh and youve got a near perfect first semester--a B+ screwed up your otherwise straight-A semester. but then you bomb out that second time around (unlikely, but lets say this student gets like D's and F's), that GPA drops to what, something under a 3.0? not bad i suppose, but youve gotta have a couple awesome semesters to catch up. as in, youd need to get straight A's for the next few semesters to get back up to what you had that first semester.
or it can happen in reverse: you bomb out first semester and then you play catch up for the next few semester to prove you can cut it.
and to make this circular, this froshie, with her 2.something in a house of 3.something-plus house may not affect the overall house GPA, but in a smaller chapter, surely.