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Originally Posted by IrishLake
^ Ditto the wise women above me. And even coming from a smaller campus environment, I HAVE seen (10+ ago and last years formal recruitment) the "cutest, funniest girl who everyone loves!!!" get released from chapters (not specifically mine) because of her 2.3 GPA.
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But, like I said, I wasn't talking about PNMs who are drastically below the minimum with a 2.3 GPA, obviously those are tossed. I was questioning more about a girl that has amazing grades but a bland personality vs. a girl with a 3.4 (when the minimum is, say, 2.5) who has an amazing personality and has people already fighting over whose little she'll be. I just can't imagine that collegiate sisters wouldn't fight tooth and nail for the second girl over the first, but if it's built in in some way that for the most competitive chapters the girl with the higher GPA but bland personality is more likely to be invited back than all the advice in threads like these makes sense.
Now if it's a rush where there are so many girls with both 4.0s and good personalities that they can fill up all the competitive chapters and all of the "mid tiers" while they are at it then I understand completely, because then it makes my hypothetical moot. I guess call me skeptical though, because except at the most prestigious universities in the nation I would guess that saying there are enough girls with perfect grades to fill up two thirds of the chapters would be hyperbole to make a point that rush is competitive, not the actual reality. And in that situation, I would also guess that simply to get into the college where everybody has such a perfect resume that you'd have to have a perfect resume too.
I guess I'm just trying to understand the sorority process more without delving into membership selection simply because ours was so simple...we didn't look at GPA or leadership at all, just voted on their personality and I believe you needed something like 85% of the chapter to say "Yes" to get a bid. So in our scenario, the PNM with the great personality but medium grades (or really even terrible grades) would get a bid while the bland personality with a stunning GPA wouldn't make it very far. If the guy seemed like a slacker or whatever that would be brought up, and if the guy seemed like a leader it would also be brought up, but we weren't sitting around analyzing their GPA and leadership activities, and at the end of the day the personality was the deciding factor. Not saying one way is better than the other, just different.