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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
This is a question that I've asked for 10 years now. I think a lot of it has to do with chapter size, as well as the slightly elevated age of NPHC chapter members. If a pledge class of 50 pulls a 3.5 in their lower division classes, that could offset the 3.0 average of a senior class. Since NPHC chapters are smaller, that doesn't average out to be the same. Also, the vast majority of NPHC members I know are engineers, pre-med, and pre-dental. Their GPAs aren't going to be as high as the NPC chapter with a ton of art history, interior design, or education majors.
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I agree with what you've said about the NPHC topic generally, but. . .
Was it really your experience that the average NPC had a ton of art history, interior design, and education majors?
It wasn't the case in mine, and I wouldn't say there was a big difference in majors between NPCs and NPHCs members in my limited experience.
I also feel the need to defend art history and interior design, at least at UGA. Art history was a rigorous as regular history, FWIW, which I realize isn't the same as being a hard science major. And interior design, if you took it through the school of art, was actually a very highly selective and rigorous program.
Now, I'm not saying that they were as hard as physics or engineering, but they were nowhere near as easy as education classes of which I've taken a few.