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Originally posted by LB1914
Msn4med1975 brought up a good point. My ex-wife graduated with a 2.75. That did not raise eyebrows or garner her any accolades. However, she was one of those people that initially chose the wrong major and suffered for it. She tried Engineering, then Computer Science. After getting too many C's and realizing that she was not cut out for those fields, she finally realized that she loved working with children and chose Elementary Education. She had over a 3.0 in her major classes, but since she still had those pesky C's from her previous classes she finished at 2.75. She then went on to get about a 3.92 or so in graduate school(this rat bastard gave her a "B" in her final semester-she had a 4.0 up to that point). Now, if we are using the standard "3.0 or you are not exhibiting scholarship" philosophy, people like her that actually ended up displaying scholarship in the end and becoming productive in their careers would have been deemed too "dumb" to make the cut.
I'm sorry if it seems like I am rambling about this, but this is one of my pet peeves about Greekdom.
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GPA is a sticking point a lot of times and while my issue was major I can see the flip side as well. A good girlfriend of mine also struggled in undergrad but it was because she was lazy. The only time she submitted she barely had the GPA and somewhere between then and graduation it slipped below a 2.5 so she couldn't submit again and right now can't submit on the alumnae level. She's working on an advanced degree (and where this should have been her turnaround point as it is for most people) she continues to struggle because of that laziness. I know once she's done she'll meet requirements for most of our orgs but I can't say right now she'd be an asset to any org NOT just because her GPA is low but because she seems to still want things handed to her instead of working hard to get them.