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Originally posted by IvySpice
How did you do this at such a selective school? I'm surprised that any PNM's had high school records that were less than stellar.
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Very few, if any, freshman PNMs were cut for grades.
We all established minimum HS GPAs anyway.
My school has now gone to deferred recruitment. The first semester of your freshman year is pass/no record (if you get a C or better, you pass, otherwise there's no record you ever took the course). I believe that grade-related cuts for freshmen are now based on how many courses they passed during their first semester.
I know people with stellar HS records who nonetheless failed most or all of their freshman classes. From that standpoint, maybe deferred rush is better, because there is real college experience to base a GPA decision on, and you don't end up in a situation where a new member comes in on the strength of her HS GPA, gets initiated (no one holds for grades anymore), then just can't make grades.