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Old 06-10-2013, 06:58 PM
MaryPoppins MaryPoppins is offline
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Originally Posted by 33girl View Post
MP - do they not take SATs? (they = the Ole Miss admissions office)

And the red/yellow/green zone thing re grades is AWESOME.
Ole Miss thought it was cute that MP had taken the SAT but wanted her ACT scores. They haven't changed a thing.

Zone thing is cool, except they don't tell you what will make a Chapter take someone in the yellow zone as a new member, and so it can lead to a Yellow Zone PNM that needs to go through formal recruitment her Sophomore year to go through as a Freshman.

Does anyone recall the Ole Miss PNM mom who railed against the cruel sororities and more cruel Panhellenic that dropped her Yellow Zone GPA daughter after Philanthropy? It was because the Zone system gave the Mother and Daughter a sense of deniability about the less than 3.0 GPA.

It's that tension between Panhellenic inclusiveness (everyone will get a trophy) and the Chapters needing to have quality PNMs through their own Membership Selection. Just look at the Freshman Class Overall GPA in the graph posted (comes from the Ole Miss web site.) It kind of paints a picture doesn't it?
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Last edited by MaryPoppins; 07-11-2013 at 10:02 AM. Reason: University of Mississippi - Ole Miss,University of Mississippi - Ole Miss greek life,University of Mississippi - Ole Miss sum
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