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Originally Posted by texasgal25

Thanks for the advice. My best friend, who is also rushing at Ole Miss, has a sister who was in ABC and says even though I do have a low gpa, I should go ahead and participate in recruitment regardless of my chances.. She said most houses will cut me very quickly but that others may give consideration. After speaking with her, she says with my personality and my additional involvement on campus, I could get lucky. I don't want to regret not going through my freshmen year. Would it look bad if I rush this year, don't receive a bid, and rush again next year? I know my grades are a pretty big deal, and I'm not going to go into detail on the illness on here but that did play a large factor as to why it's as low as it is. The classes that I did attend and was 100% healthy, I excelled in. It's just really hard to accept that there's nothing I can do about it, I was really looking forward to this. Also, I've already paid the fee to participate

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but there are some friends who are just trying to be encouraging, even if that means not telling the 100% truth.

Also, the individual chapters have their OWN GPA requirements. You may have the minimum required to PARTICIPATE in recruitment (Ole Miss doesn't set a GPA requirement), but I doubt that you meet the chapter's requirements for incoming freshmen. Example: the bare minimum for Kappa Delta is 2.8. You have a 2.6. The other chapters on campus are probably in the same GPA ballpark (ex: 2.8-3.0.)