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Maryland has deferred recruitment. First semester freshmen can join if they have 12 credits (usually AP), and there is no cutoff for high school GPA because of the small number of freshmen rushing and because it can't be that low if you were accepted to the University in the first place.

In the spring, it's only the college GPA that counts. The GPA to go through recruitment is a 2.5, but most of the chapters have published minimums of 2.6-2.8. PNMs with between a 2.8 and a 3.0 are usually questionable and below a 2.8 will usually get you cut by a lot of chapters early on, though generally, if they get a bid, it's because there is another factor that compensates for their deficiency.