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Originally posted by deadbear80
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!
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I think Munchkin is talking about freshmen rushing, and I can see where she's coming from. I can't imagine that there are more than a handful of freshmen at my school that had high school GPAs below 2.5, and the school I go to is not exactly top tier in terms of getting in. College GPA is, of course, another story.
And carnation, I wonder why they only check the transfer students? At many schools it wouldn't be tough for a transfer (at least a sophomore transfer) to pass themselves off as a freshman if they really wanted to. And I'm sure that if they had been Greek at a previous school and really wanted to join a different sorority now, they might go to great lengths. Checking only the self-declared transfer students still gives the opportunity for many women to slip through those cracks if they really try. Although given the large number of rushees, it's not surprising that sororities don't check everyone, I think it's strange to assume that these women would lie about not having been Greek before, yet not about anything else (previous student status, etc.).
It makes more sense to me that the individual organizations would check up prior to initiation, but when you're thinking up to 80 girls in a pledge class x 25 other organizations to check in with, that's still a lot of people and a WHOLE lot of work. And when you consider the hundreds/thousands of women that initiate in every organization every year, I just don't think that most of our HQs have the resources to deal with checking up on the background of every single girl that rushes. (Clearly they don't, which is why they only check the women who are most likely to have joined before, but this also explains why so many girls ARE able to join a second organization with nobody finding out, or nobody finding out until long after.)