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Originally Posted by MUSK81
A tad off-topic but ... when I was in school, no one ever gave a second thought to a sophomore or junior rushing. In fact, some of our most fantastic sisters came in after they'd been in school a year or two. It might be because it's a very non-competitive school with a lot of commuters and first-gen students who have no clue about Greek life until they've been in college a while. Most of the actives were that way, too, so we tended to be pretty forgiving.
And grades? Grades, schmades! As long as you had a 2.0, you had nothing to worry about, although you couldn't be initiated unless you had at least that. You were allowed to hold over one semester and if you didn't make it by then, you were politely asked to leave. But that seldom happened - a 2.0 wasn't that hard to get at my school.
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At the risk of taking things even further off topic, I officially love you MUSK81 for inadvertently proving a point I have been making to my poor husband! For 27 years now I have needled him pretty endlessly about the education (or lack thereof) he received from Marshall - all in good humor, of course. I just pulled him upstairs and read your post to him. He took it with an equal amount of good humor (I may question his education at times, but not his patience), and pointed out that since the major listed on his diploma was merely a convenience, and he actually majored in track/cross country, Marshall really could not be blamed for any shortcomings.
My SIL, also a Marshall grad, is coming in this evening. I can hardly wait to read it to her since she is a Charleston south hills girl, and therefore, by definition, a bit condescending.
By the way, as the mother of a child who joined her sorority when she was a sophomore by credits and a junior by age (took a year off of school), I completely agree with your first point.