grade question

chelc8807 · #1 06-22-2007, 01:28 PM

i know this still isnt an excuse but when i say worked all through hs i mean i worked 35 hours a week

adpiucf · #2 06-22-2007, 01:36 PM

That's an amazing accomplishment and not to make less of it, but it still won't change anything at recruitment. Grades are paramount, and cuts made in the early rounds of recruitments are specifically related to grades.

chelc8807 · #3 06-22-2007, 01:56 PM

The gpa requirements aren't listed on the schools recruitment page, and I've been looking on the national pages to find requirements. Most of them I'm right at or right above, thats why I was aking if I should even rush. As for time management I'll have alot less responsibility in college than I did in hs for various reasons.

cuteASAbug · #4 06-22-2007, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by chelc8807

The gpa requirements aren't listed on the schools recruitment page, and I've been looking on the national pages to find requirements. Most of them I'm right at or right above, thats why I was aking if I should even rush. As for time management I'll have alot less responsibility in college than I did in hs for various reasons.

GPA requirements vary from chapter to chapter. The national GPA requirement may only be a 2.5, but an individual chapter could require at least a 3.2.

sherbertlemons · #5 06-22-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by chelc8807

The gpa requirements aren't listed on the schools recruitment page, and I've been looking on the national pages to find requirements. Most of them I'm right at or right above, thats why I was aking if I should even rush. As for time management I'll have alot less responsibility in college than I did in hs for various reasons.

The thing about national requirements is this- they are the rock-bottom, bare minimum that organization will accept. Chapters have the option of setting a higher minimum GPA. So what you will find quite a bit is that XYZ's national minimum is a 2.5, but GF chapter of XYZ will absolutely not accept anything below a 2.8 for incoming freshmen.

You can try telling them your story, but more often than not in my experience, the chapter requirements were absolutely non-negotiable, even though we could technically go lower. It's sad, but true.

The other thing is is that sororities will assume that your GPA will drop from high school. In my experience, most freshman GPAs do drop.

I agree with the other posters- your best chance will be recruitment as a sophomore.

cuteASAbug · #6 06-22-2007, 02:01 PM

This is going to sound really snobby, but I don't care. When you say you worked all through HS, was it because you wanted to or because you needed the money? The reason I'm asking is because sorority life is expensive anywhere, but especially so in the South. Your new member semester is crazy, I think my mom is still in mild shock from it. Sorority costs are more than just dues, it's buying gifts for your big/little, event t- shirts, mixers, formal tickets, formal dress, etc. Your GPA already makes you not a very strong candidate, and if money is a problem, I would recommend rushing, because you may end up feeling left out.

dgdramadawg · #7 06-22-2007, 02:35 PM

Here's the thing: the members of the chapters on your campus probably won't bring up your grades during round one because way too many girls will be rushing for them to remember your GPA and make that connection when they see you. I'm assuming you won't bring it up because you won't want to draw negative attention to yourself (regardless of your excuse, if you bring it up you'll be known as the girl with the low GPA who has an excuse for everything). When grade cuts are made, they are made because the chapter has academic standards they hold themselves to... your excuse won't matter when a chapter plans to cut everyone with a GPA below a 3.0 or a 2.8 or whatever. I would assume that in an SEC rush you will be cut by most houses very early on if you have a 2.5 high school GPA. Sherbertlemons makes a great comment about GPAs typically dropping... who wants a girl who might be on academic probation spring semester?

I'm surprised that you're attending an SEC school that doesn't post a minimum GPA for recruitment... how else would PNMs know whether or not to bother signing up? I think Auburn addresses the question of how much high school GPA will matter particularly well: https://fp.auburn.edu/greek/grades.htm

FSUZeta · #8 06-22-2007, 02:56 PM

i think cuteASAbug meant not rushing if money might be hard to come by.

i agree mostly with that statement, but not everything will be mandatory. for instance, you won't have to go to formal, but you will have to pay the new member fee, the initiation fee, a fee for a badge(even if you get a plain, unadorned one)a parlor fee and dues. you won't have to buy t-shirts for every event that offers a tshirt, but in some chapters the cost of tshirts is figured into your dues.

back to the gpa issue, you might try looking on the local websites of the sororities at your school and see if any of them have posted the minimum gpa they accept. if you can't find that on any of their sites, you could call your college panhellenic office and ask them what the minimum gpa is to enroll in recruitment-if there is none, then give it a try.

FSUZeta · #9 06-22-2007, 03:08 PM

the asa girls are exactly right.

at fgcu when the pnm signs up for recruitment, she also signs a paper stating that she allows the office of greek life access to her transcript, and the greek life office verifies the grades. we know each pnms gpa, whether she is a freshman just entering college for the first time, or a more seasoned college student.