Grades: How do they play in?

[Shark_in_Skirt]

Hi everyone,

I've heard it mentioned on this board a couple of times that the sororities consider your highschool grades... how exactly do they obtain them? Do they just take your word, do you give them a transcript, do they ask your highschool for a transcript?

Also, how much does your GPA affect the impression you make upon the sorority?

Thanks so much (I know nothing)!

XOXO,
Annie.

[jess_pom]

The way it works at Clarion is the administration gets your transcripts from you hs and then makes an eligability list. If you are eligable, then you go on a list with your name, address, phone number, gpa, etc. If you are ineligable, you go on another list with just your name.

At Clarion, you must have a 3.0 from hs as a first semester freshman to join any sorority. After your first semester, you have to have a 2.0 atleast, some orgs have higher requirements.

At my chapter, we don't look at grades as much as some of the larger chapters at schools with huge greek systems do.

I personally feel that grades are very important. If we accept a sister who has a low gpa, she brings down our chapter average, plus if she falls below the minimum, she will be placed on academic probation.

[justamom]

The emphasis on grades will vary from chapter to chapter as well as girl to girl.

For some recruitments-They request a SEALED transcript with the school's mark. I say REQUEST because, I don't think that's strictly enforced. You attach this to your application to enter recruitment.
Or, if directed, your school mails it directly to them.
There is a minimum GPA, as jess_pom stated, that allows you to be elligible for the rounds.

Several sororities, in fact I think MOST, set their own standards. Though 2.7 may be the information on your recruitment packet, a sorority may have their own limit of 3.2. At one of my niece's GLO, they were allowed 2 grade risks. This was for the girl that everyone loved, but didn't quite meet the standard. It is not liberally used. Still, no matter HOW great the girl is, she has to meet the minimum eligibility requirement.

A girl's GPA is one of the MAJOR screening tools used by sororities in competative recruitments. Still, in the FEW cases I know of first hand, they allow themselves some leeway.

[PM_Mama00]

At UMD, I think the first time any girl is allowed to be cut, is if she doesn't meet the GPA requirement of Panhel. Our Panhel GPA is a 2.25 to rush. Phi Mu has the highest GPA requirement on campus, with a 2.5 to stay in good standing. I've violated this a few too many times, and spent the first year or so on Academic probation. But without my sisters, I wouldn't have cared and prolly woulda dropped out of school. A lot of the GPA requirements vary within different GLOs, but I do know that Panhel GPA is very important. Good luck!

[fire1977]

At the school where I went to, I believe that you sign a card releasing the information to the sororities. In my sorority you have to have a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale from HighSchool and a 2.25 in college. If any women is below them we cut them as soon as possible (ie as soon as we get their grades) so that they are not mislead into thinking they may get a bid. This is the reason why we do not wait until grades are in to initiate. Anyone we accept will already have the grades.

The idea behind the grades for the obvious reason is because you are in college to get a degree first, so that comes before it. Secondly because of the restrictions placed on a member without grades, it is believed that they will not have the time to commit to the organization because they need to focus on their grades more.