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Originally posted by James
Sorry to crash your thread . . well not really 
I think the people that commented that excellence is not solely a GPA issue are on the right track.
Sometimes we forget that some of he most successful people in the world didn't have the best GPA's in school. GPA is a singular measure of worth.
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THANK YOU!!! GPA is not everything. I know many Sorors who came in with just a 2.5. Does this make them work for Sigma any less? Does it make them unsuccessful? Does it hinder them from moving on to grad school and graduating and becoming successful in life, no? Just because you may have been able to achieve high GPA's doesn't mean that those who didn't are not worthy to be in our organizations. Now if the person has a low GPA because they were lazy and never went to class, that is a different story. We need to look at these people overall! Everyone is just not a good student, meaning they could be bad test takers, they could have ADD or other factors. I personally was a horrible student in undergrad and am currently in graduate school. Just because my GPA was low didn’t mean I didn’t work hard for SIGMA. But those who inducted me could see the whole me and not just my GPA. I became Basileus of my chapter not even a year after I came in and held that position for 2 years. Did my GPA affect my ability to move SIGMA forward? NO! This is a sensitive issue for me because I think we put to much emphasis on GPA and not the person as a whole. Do we look at what circumstances caused a person to just have a 2.5 or a 2.7? I am not saying that we should be accepting people with 1.9's no, but we need to look at the person as a whole.