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Originally posted by Munchkin03
I suspect that you're using "selective" to refer to just the Greek system, and not the quality of academics.
The most academically selective schools don't HAVE to check for GPA. I would imagine that at an Ivy, MIT, Stanford, Georgetown, Chicago or even the good state schools...most, if not all, of the PNMs have at least a 3.0.
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You would be surprised...I went to Wash U--which is becoming harder and harder to get into...and VERY academically rigorous once you're there. I did very well in high school (over a 4.0), all honors and AP classes...and I had a 2.85 1st semester of my freshman year because I took 17 credits and read no less than 1,500 pages a night for all of my classes (on top of being social like most freshman try to be). Just because people are at a good school does not mean that once they are there they still always get good grades. I managed to dig myself out of a hole and never had a semester lower than 3.62 after that...but still. I think you're making a very huge and wrong generalization. Even the 'smart' schools check GPA--ESPECIALLY if they have deferred rush. The minimum GPA to rush when I did in Jan. '99 was a 2.0 and the chapter with the highest requirement had a 2.7--and there were girls who couldn't make that!