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Originally Posted by hollyday

This past semester, my first semester at this university, I earned a 2.99 GPA (my school grades on a plus and minus system) the minimum to participate in spring formal recruitment is a 2.5 and of the 15 chapters on my campus 2 have a 3.0 requirement the rest are 2.8, 1 with a 2.7, and one with 2.5.
However I realized that the house averages are normally much higher than the gpa requirement aka much higher than my dismal gpa.

Special Snowflake question:
I transferred from another 4 year to this school(this was always the plan, the new school has a much better program for my major), I would consider myself a junior but not all of my credits were accepted so I have 3 years left here. And my prior gpa at my previous school was a 3.8, would this be taken into consideration at all? Being a junior I know my chances are already diminished and this first semester gpa (my first C in college) really does not help things. Thanks for any insight!

Originally Posted by hollyday

Thank you for replying! I got two letters of recommendation from women who my mom knows who went to my school, both of them told me they weren't needed but wrote them anyway because they are nice ladies lol. However, after hearing repeatedly that no one uses them here I stopped looking.

Sciencewoman & DubiaSis, it is nice to see different ways that people may view this, although I certainly hope they will all see it the way Sciencewoman does but that's not realistic. Hopefully being open to all options will help me here! I've tried to close my ears to any "reputation" gossip so I can make my own opinions come recruitment.

& AZTheta you are right, my old school was insanely easy compared to this new program. The program average is a 3.1 for undergraduates for my major . This semester I earned an A, B+, B+, B-, and a C+ but the A was only a 1 credit course so it didn't help me out that much. This comes out to a 2.985 rounded to a 2.99 (A=4.0, B+=3.3, B-=2.7, C+=2.3). I would've thought my gpa would be higher too, but my studying habits were not up to par with this new course load and this is something I didn't figure out until after the first round of exams.

Anyways thanks again for the insight! I definitely plan on going through recruitment but I don't want to get myself too excited if realistically my chances aren't so hot.

QFP