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Originally Posted by Old_Row
Well letting them rush anyway can still cause all kinds of hurt feelings for the PNMs and make the sorority members look really bad. My school goes out of its way to tell PNMs that a minimum of 3.0 is strongly suggested to go through and even puts the suggested minimum for each house in our recruitment guide and kind of hits the PNMs over the head with it. Still every year girls you really like that you know from home or whatever come through with GPAs that just have no chance at all and you have to cut them. It ends up making them think you don't like them because by letting them go through recruitment it gives them false hope that someone can do something in your chapter because we already know her and can somehow get something special done to get her a bid in spite of her 2.6 or whatever. It really causes a whole bunch of hurt feelings and all for no reason.
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Agreed. When I first went to college, it was at a top 20 school so high school GPA wasn't ever something we had to worry about for fall recruitment. We did switch to a winter recruitment though, so there was a minimum GPA as freshman 1st quarter grades were received before rush started. I ended up transferring and graduating from a state school near home, and girls would go through that we all knew from high school and yes, there were a bunch of hurt feelings when the super popular girl with the super low GPA went through. A couple of these girls ended up doing really, really well in college (and a few that I recall went on to medical/dental schools), but those were rare. And it's sometime just too risky to take a gamble on those when all you have to go off of is high school grades.
At my daughter's school (Kansas), the minimum strongly suggested GPA is 3.0 and each chapters' average GPA is published in the Greek Guide. The girls are warned that if their GPAs aren't at whatever houses' average, then they should anticipate a cut. Not that it always happens, but as a general warning it's very fair.