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Originally posted by bluethunder
i think that a 2.5 isn't hard to achieve at all... at the same time, academic excellence, committment to one's studies, and committment to being an excellent woman in general CANNOT be measured by GPA... it's an approach you have to life and an attitude you have about your studies. there are some folks with 2.5 GPAs that work harder than a lot of folks who have 4.0s...
i know at many points during my academic career, my grades didn't reflect half the struggle it took to achieve them.
excellent results tend to indicate excellent efforts, i will agree, but a 2.5 not being "excellent" is kind of relative. the person who sticks it out and graduates and overcomes every test of their dedication is EXCELLENT to me...the person who does the best they can NO MATTER what is excellent to me... i think the 2.5 is just a bench mark because we gotta have a standard. if you wanna raise GPA, i'm for it-- my line came in and maintained the highest GPAs in my chapter while i was an undergrad... but a number doesn't reflect a woman's committment to excellence or high standards or obligation of duty. we cannot afford to get it twisted.
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I didn't say that a 2.5 person wasn't committed, but Soror Rho4life had a point about the teetering folk. I know of a grip of folks who had that 2.5, joined their org of choice and ended up on academic probation because they were the bomb diggity soror or frat.
That's all I was saying, but last I looked, they weren't handing out honor roll, cum laude or dean's list designation to well meaning, hard working 2.5s.