Staying active beyond traditional 4 years of school

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Originally Posted by annabella

Here's the thing: if you're taking more than four years to graduate, you probably need the extra semester(s) to really focus on school, not sorority. If your degree program normally takes people more than four years, it's probably a +1 Masters-type thing, i.e., you're technically in grad school after 4 years. So you shouldn't have enough time to devote to being a sorority member anyway.

Reading is fundamental:

Originally Posted by stargirl007

I am scheduled for graduation in May 2011, but I have been working to finalize my plan for graduation and I would only be around 3 classes away from a second degree (I have an advertising minor, I could change it to a second major and be this far from accomplishing it) so I am thinking about staying an extra semester and graduating in December to obtain it.

To the OP:
Many women did this on my campus, or something similar. More often than not, they were education majors doing thier student teaching that semester, so they took alumna status.

Others that had either changed majors (which set them back in credits) or had picked up a second major or a minor did remain active in the chapter, even holding offices at times. I would check with your chapter advisor or exec board to see what Gamma Phi's policies would be.